"Whimper" newsletter

[dwight elvey]

>From: "Richard A. Cini" <rcini at optonline.net>
>
>All:
>
>     Does anyone know if scans of the Tandy newsletter ³The Whimper² exists
>on-line? I did some Googling tonight and came up mostly with stuff on
>Jessica Tandy whimpering :-) I¹ve been told these newsletters had some good
>T2k info in them but I don¹t see them on-line anywhere.
>
>     Specifically, I¹m fishing for information on getting MFM hard drives
>working on Tandy 2000 machines. I have two machines with to seemingly bad
>Tandon TM502 drives. I saw another thread from last month that complained
>about the poor quality of the Tandon drives, so it¹s probably bad drives. I
>have an ST225 drive that I want to run externally as a test but I haven¹t
>been able to locate a manual on the T2k HD controller nor the external 
>drive
>(25-1025 I think). I don¹t want to connect it blindly before I¹m confident
>the controller is setup properly. Irrational fear maybe but I want to
>proceed methodically.
>
>     Any info appreciated. Thanks.
>

Hi
Is this the 5Meg drive? I have a drive I removed from one of the
RS disk drive boxes. I don't recall the Tandom number but it may
still be good.
I needed a supply and a controller similar to the WD1000. This was
just what I needed.
In any case, what ever you use, you have to make sure that the step
rate is compatible. The 225 was intended to run with auto stepping.
It might not work well with other step rates. This often requires
some software modification or hopefully a table data change.
I do believe that all the RS HD controllers were WD1000 compatible.
Dwight

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