[Coco] FD-502 floppy

[James C. Hrubik, Sr.]

Mike, if it's a 502, it's a DS DD drive, and under OS9 you can use it 
as such, back side and all with the right descriptor.  No mods 
necessary.  If it's like my son's 502, the power plug for the second 
drive ( and the floppy cable connector) will let you plug in a 1.4M 3.5 
as the second drive.  If there are no jumpers on the 3.5, you may have 
to do the twisty thing in the middle of the cable.  I had to use a 
power adapter to put the 3.5 in my FD500 case, but again, no mods were 
necessary to the floppy cable on any of my drives as long as the drives 
had jumpers.

On Thursday, February 10, 2005, at 10:49  PM, KnudsenMJ at aol.com wrote:

>
> In a message dated 2/10/05 11:20:35 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> teamick at cox.net writes:
>
> If  anyone is interested . electronics-plus.com has brand new Tandy
> FD-502's  for $79.95
> plus $17.95 shipping and handling . It looks like that includes
> controller, dual case ,
> 1 - 5 1/4 floppy  and manual according to  the box pictured. It doesn't
> say anything about cable.  What normally  came with the FD-502 from 
> Tandy?
>
>
> Well, this certainly sounds like a "Drive 0 Kit", since it has 
> controller
> and manual -- and, by Tandy's standards, that definitely includes the  
> cable!
> For nearly $100 I hope you get one with it.
>
> That cable will have two female connectors, with teeth pulled to hit 
> Drives
> 0 and 1.  But you can crimp more connectors to handle more drives,
> double-sided, etc.  I suspect that drive won't read its back side with 
> a  stock Tandy
> connector (someone correct me!).
> --Mike K.
>
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