[Coco] HD power supply

Bruce W. Calkins brucewcalkins at charter.net
Sun Mar 1 16:04:36 EST 2009


>> Is a power supply for a FD-501 or FD-502
>> sufficient to power an IDE hard drive (or two?)
>
> That might be a little borderline, Bill.

The Tandy FD-501 and 502 drives were a little light on the power capability. 
If you got the Tandy second drive kit they added a chintzy fan to keep 
things cool enough to function.  And we all know that Tandy never put 
anything into cooling, unless it burned them first.

Bruce W. 




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