Tandon TM848-2 Floppy drive power

[Jules Richardson]

Tony Duell wrote:
> I rememebr one of the old Sun machines (Sun 2?) that used an Archive 
> Sidewinder QIC drive. It has a 4 pin power connector, jsut like the one 
> on a 5.25" drive. There's only one problem. The Sidewinder uses +5V and 
> +24V.  And IIRC the only differnce in the tape drive pwoer connector was 
> the colour of thew wire to one pin.

Whoo - I think you might have got it :) I was casually reading this thread and 
had a hazy memory of seeing inside some system where there was what looked to 
be a "standard" power connector when in fact it wasn't. I think you're 
probably right, and the Sun2 was it... trying to remember's been nagging at me 
all day :-)