Quadram Quadlink

[nparker@cie-2.uoregon.edu (Neil Parker)]

I found an Apple II treasure in Goodwill this afternoon--a Quadram Quadlink
board.  This is a board for the IBM PC that allows it to run Apple II
programs and read Apple II disks.  Since it only cost $11, I couldn't pass
it up.  It came in the original box, with the original docs and disks, and
everything appears to have had very little use (in fact, the package was
"more than complete"--there were *two* Quadlink boards in it).

But when I got it home and plugged into the old XT, it didn't work.  The
bootup program asks for the Filer disk, so I insert the Filer disk, and
the disk drive runs for a few moments, and then reports a "problem", and
loops back to the ask-for-the-Filer-disk prompt.

I know the Filer disk isn't the cause of the problem, because it boots and
runs on my IIGS just fine.  I'm pretty sure it's not a problem with the
Quadlink board itself, since both boards from the package fail identically.

So are there any old (or even current) Quadlink users out there who
remember what kind of tricks are necessary to get it to work on an IBM XT
clone?  (I think it might be a disk drive problem--the Quadlink cable
wants to connect to an old-style edge connector, but my disk drive
conroller has the newer 34-pin connectors, so I had to hook up the cables
in rather bizarre ways.  The IBM drive still worked properly as an IBM
drive in this configuration, but not as an Apple II drive.)

               - Neil Parker
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