The label on the bottom says Flexible Data Systems, Inc. 10503 Forest Lane • Suite 148 Dallas, Texas 75243 • 214-669-3999
Appears to be a dead company. Google search revealed nothing useful, and Whitepages says the number is an unlisted cell phone now. On the inside it's much simpler than I thought. It's an Epson SMD-400 with a small circuit board that plugs into the drive. The circuit board has 2 small rom chips, a capacitor and a fingerful of other components on it. Seems to be extremely simple tech. Anyone know any Amiga owners who would want it? The only Amiga owner I know is my dad, and his sits on the top shelf in his garage along with a typewriter, a really old projector and a broken record player. (At least we know where I got my penchant for keeping old tech around) I'd happily trade it for an HDI-30 -> DB25 SCSI adapter. On Oct 30, 11:42 am, Andrew Jung <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh dear! Please, don't chop it! > There are some Amiga users out there who would love to get a hold of > that one. Maybe someone could do you a swap for an Apple one. My > feeling is that it is in the ROMs as the thing needed to be able to > know how to work for the computer without loading drivers and the > Macintosh formatting and Amiga formatting of the floppy disks are not > compatible. So my advice is to try and find an Amiga user that you > could make really happy. > > Cheers, Andrew. > > On 2009-10-30, at 9:26 AM, Adam wrote: > > > > > I have had an external floppy drive sitting in a box for a very long > > time. I'm not sure where it came from, I think it may have just been > > handed to me without comment at one point. I believe it is from an > > Amiga based on the cable connector. I'll have to count again when I > > get home, but I'm pretty sure it's the DB-23 connector. I'll take the > > cover off and see if there are any brand labels anywhere. My question > > is, can I, with the appropriate DB-19 connector, chop the end of the > > cable off and repin it to the Apple external spec? I'm not sure how > > much software was loaded into ROMs on these things back in the day, so > > would it be worth my while to try? I found the pinouts for both drives > > here: > > >http://www.pinouts.org.uk/index.php?page=Amiga_External_Drive > > > and here: > > >http://www.pinouts.org.uk/index.php?page=Macintosh_External_Floppy > > > It looks like the functions the Mac needs to use are available on the > > Amiga drive. Should I (or rather, my electronics engineer friend) > > attempt it, or would I just be destroying something that someone else > > may want? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of the Vintage Macs group. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/vintagemacs.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vintage-macs Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
