[Coco] tandy 1000 ex/hx external 720k drive to use on coco

[Bob Devries]

Should work fine. In fact, I have one coming from china to power my 
N8VEM ZETA Z80 SBC.

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia


On 20/06/2015 5:35 PM, Josh Harper via Coco wrote:
> what I have is  the tandy 1000 single external 720k drive in its original case with a new ribbon cable that plugs into the coco disk controller
> the I have a 4 pin small connector pluged in to the drive that has a 4 pin larger power connector on other end
> all I need now is a power supply that powers standard  cd/dvd/hdd that will plug into my  power connector
> is this correct
> will the following work,  looks like it has astandard hdd,cd,dvd  power connector
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/AC-100V-240V-to-DC-12V-5V-2-5A-Power-Supply-Adapter-HDD-HARD-DISK-DRIVE-IDE-/121477474087?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item1c489f2727
> thanks  guys
>         From: George Ramsower <georgera at gvtc.com>
>   To: coco at maltedmedia.com
>   Sent: Saturday, June 20, 2015 12:16 AM
>   Subject: Re: [Coco] tandy 1000 ex/hx external 720k drive to use on coco
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>    The last PSU I used was from an old VCR. It is a switching PSU and had
> 5V and 12V. It handles the CC3 board, 3.5" floppy drive and add on
> boards but I did have to add a 12V lamp to the 5V supply line to keep
> the current drain to a level that keeps the PSU happy.
>    I don't know how easy it is to find old VCRs now but, when I got this
> one, those things were constantly being tossed and replaced with new
> ones. That one is about half the width of a 5 /14 drive and about the
> same thickness and length.
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> George R
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