[Coco] Help identifying after-market disk controller board?

Gregory Law glaw at live.com
Mon Mar 6 18:39:28 EST 2017


The solder blobs on the bottom are a bit rough and seem to indicate it 
was hand soldered as well.

On 3/6/2017 4:24:16 PM, "Tim Fadden" <t.fadden at cox.net> wrote:

>On 3/6/2017 2:05 PM, Tom Seagrove wrote:
>>The only half sized ones I know of were made by Tandy and I think 
>>Disto made one too.  IIRC
>>
>>On Mar 6, 2017, at 11:15 AM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> wrote:
>>
>>You have only the board, no case?
>>
>>Or a totally generic case?
>>
>>Art
>>
>>On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 5:15 AM, Leslie Ayling <layling at bigpond.net.au>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>Hi All,
>>>
>>>Can anyone help in identifying the following disk controller board?
>>>
>>>http://www.crisis.com.au/images/2793_front_sm.jpg
>>>http://www.crisis.com.au/images/2793_rear_sm.jpg
>>>
>>>Has a WD2793 FDC, and few external components.
>>>No markings on the board which might hint at its' pedigree I'm 
>>>afraid.
>>>
>>>EPROM has DECB V1.1 programmed, though I haven't checked for any 
>>>patches
>>>yet.
>>>
>>>T.I.A.
>>>Leslie
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>Looks to me like it might be a home-brew one to me.  The silk screening 
>looks a bit rough around the edges. Doesn't look like it came from a 
>normal manufacturer.
>
>
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