[Coco] FD-50X Drive manuals

[wdg3rd at comcast.net]

----- "Tim Fadden" <t.fadden at cox.net> wrote:


> This looks more like sticky head rails.
> 
> Just for general  purposes, on all of the card edge connectors, dirves
> 
> and controllers. Us a pencil erasor on the contacts and buff them up 
> pretty!
> Then do the clean/lube proceedure on the drives.  I be you will get
> them 
> working.
> 
> The round cable is most likely the stock tandy cable.  The flat ribbon
> cable is most likely home made.  If you only have 1 drive on the
> system 
> It should make no difference which cable you use as long as you put
> the 
> drive on the end of the cable.  Tandy drives all come set as drive 1. 
> 
> The fiddle with the cable to make the drive select different.

To the best of my knowledge (which used to be pretty exhaustive, but in a couple of decades a lot of brain cells die, and I have habits that help that process), Tandy never made a round floppy cable -- it was just ribbon.  Mod 1/3/4 FD and HD, Mod 2/12/16/6k FD and HD, Coco FD and HD, Tandy 2000 and early PC compatibles external HD.  All ribbons.  (My knowledge may be incomplete, as I left the company in 1986 and they didn't completely stop manufacturing computer products until five or six more years later, so some round cables may have snuck in while I wasn't watching, but I doubt it, they cost more and the Shack was always went for the cheap).  (Connecting the ends of round cables to _anything_ is labor intensive, which makes them expensive and is one of the reasons land lines cost so much).
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