[Coco] FD-50X Drive manuals

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On Sunday 08 March 2009 11:39:26 Tim Fadden wrote:
> Don't know about ALL of the models, but the latest 502's come with ROUND
> cables.  Unless you are pulling my leg.   They are actually  flat cables
> put into a grey ROUND sleave. If you want a picture I can send it.
>
> Tim
>
> wdg3rd at comcast.net wrote:
> > ----- "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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Hello, for what it is worth, I have one of those beasts too. I thing I would 
have preferred the flat ribbon, the round one is not very flexible.