[Coco] Ide hard and floppy enclosure in one case

[Michael Brant]

Sounds like a good setup Henry

On Oct 14, 2017 11:15 AM, "Rietveld Rietveld" <rietveldh at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
>
> Not sure if this is of interest to anyone but since getting an ide HD
> hooked up to my coco I have been pondering the best way to house it
>
> I came up with a clever(at least I think so) idea that seems to work well
>
> Since most of us will want a physical floppy drive as part of the setup to
> transfer disks to the HD I figured I could house both together
> I picked up a 3022 drive enclosure with power supply at the Tandy
> Assembly. I used a molex 'y' cable to give me two power connections.
> I then mounted a spare half height drive I had from an old fd502 into the
> case  and used a 3 1/2 drive bay adapter to mount the IDE drive underneath
> it.  I 3d printed a plastic cover to go under the physical floppy drive
> that covers the HD.   (I am trying to print a fancier one that looks like a
> blank drive plate u see on the fd501 or 502 drive enclosures)
> I ran the IDE and drive cable out the back of the enclosure near where the
> original edge connector was.
>
> Now it looks like a regular drive setup with my coco1
>
>
>
> Sent from my BlackBerry Passport Red Edition.
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