Restoring an XT - transfer problem

[Tony Duell]

> 
> On 3 Mar 2007 at 8:05, Chris M wrote:
> 
> >  Yes yes but of course. But that presumes the
> > availability of 1. I had never seen one of these
> > things until about a year or so ago. 
> 
> As far as I know, one was usually part of the 3.5" to 5.25" floppy 
> adapter frame.  My first 1.44MB drive, a Sony,  came with one as part 

That's where all mine came from. I never actually used them, since I made 
up my own cables with the right connectors,  positioned as I wanted them.

Some of my adapter kits came with little PCBs with the jumper link I 
mentioned earlier. This type has all the ground connections commoned on 
the PCB. The other type is a plastic molding containing 34 contacts that 
fits over the plug on the back of the 3.5" drive and has a tongue that 
fits into the edge connector socket. This type, of course, has all 34 
connections electrically isolated from each other. I've used those to 
make plugs to fit edge connectors in other devices -- I remember kludginh 
a wire-wrap DIL socket into one using a bit of stripboard to extend some 
of the pins. And I used that to make EPROM cartridges for the Vectrex 
without having to etch a PCB.

-tony