xerox 820-II boot disk

[David Griffith]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Dave Dunfield wrote:

> > I was hoping to find someone who has already done this since I barely have
> > the room to do so.
>
> You shouldn't need a lot of additional space. The adapter consists of a
> 50-pin edge card connector (you can make this from a cut-down ISA connector
> if you need), and the 34-pin connector salvaged from an old 5.25" drive
> PCB. If your PC doesn't have one, you will also need a PC floppy cable
> with a 5.25" drive connector. If you prefer, you could make the adapter
> using a pin-header and connect directly to a 3.5" floppy cable.
>
> You already have the 8" drives in an enclosure with power supply. You
> pop the cover off, sit your PC beside it with it's cover off, and run
> the floppy cable from the PC to one of the 8" drives.
>
> Trickiest part is iirc the 820 has single-density on the system tracks
> and many PCs can't do that.
>
> Depending on where you are located, there may be someone nearby with an
> 8" <> PC setup who can make you the disk. (Where are you?)

Bakersfield (southern California)

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