[Coco] PCs pretending to be drive boxes wasRe: Drivewire question

Steven Hirsch snhirsch at gmail.com
Tue Apr 21 21:28:25 EDT 2009


On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Willard Goosey wrote:

> What's the fun in that? ;-)
>
> More seriously, I think we're talking of two different things.  I
> refer to an x1541 cable, which, IIRC might require a chip or two to
> interface to new-fangled bi-directional parallel ports, but is "just a
> cable" for AT-class parallel ports.

I was thinking of the XM/XE 1541 flavor, which needs (3) diodes.  Didn't 
realize that newer computers worked with the "just wires" flavor.



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