Re: Repost: Is this a PC Floppy Interface Card?

[Stingray <stingray@webzone.net>]

Rubywand wrote:

>
> > > Stingray writes ...
>  ....
>
>  I don't think
> > that they are capable of drawing power through the ribbon cable like an Apple
> > drive does.
> >
>
>      True. Overlooked that. However, it would be easy for the board maker to
> supply a ribbon cable which uses a few unneeded lines to feed a branching
> power cable. That would be one way to allow using unmodified PC drives. Even
> simpler would be a separate power cable ending in a sandwich plug which goes
> to the motherboard and has pins for plugging in the power supply. Basically,
> you can be pretty sure that the power would come from the Apple II.
>
>      If the ribbon cable came with the card, it probably went to an adaptor to
> fit the regular edge card connector of a PC drive.
>

The ribbon cable not only came with the card, it is permanantly soldered to the
card. Whatever this card is intended to connect to, this is the cable that it uses.

Steve

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