[Coco] FD-502 drive

[Chad H]

It's the Tandy FD-502 that has the "funky" little connecter.  The connecter
you are probably looking at is a couple of times larger and wedge
shaped...identical to the power connectors in PC's for their IDE hard drives
and CD/DVD-ROMS.  I snipped the spare power connecter on my FD-502 case and
solder-spliced in a new stander IDE connector and can now run the normal
360k IBM-PC/AT 5.25 floppies just fine.  The wiring is the same, outers are
+12VDC,+5VDC and the inner lines are negative ground.

I would only keep the original FD-502 power connector if you are determined
to find a original Tandy FD-502 drive unit...which to my understanding are
extremely rare.

- Chad

-----Original Message-----
From: coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com [mailto:coco-bounces at maltedmedia.com] On
Behalf Of tonym
Sent: Sunday, May 10, 2009 2:42 AM
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts
Subject: [Coco] FD-502 drive


Anyone have any bare drives for the FD-502 drive?
I want to put a second in mine. These have the funky connectors on them,
non-standard.

Tony       

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