Re: FD5500

Picture ? "Here are the pictures of George Page's computer collection" - so
unfortunately not mine

Your PCB says "MEL 148", so somehow this may be related to FD-148 ;)

Regards,
K.B.

2016-06-03 15:00 GMT+02:00 <silverdr@wfmh.org.pl>:

> >> 2016-06-03 14:10 GMT+02:00 <silverdr@wfmh.org.pl>:
> >> I stumbled recently across a - kind of - interesting drive:
> >>
> >> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/92ogkr5v1v0pyg9/AAB0e8hn9oOUgr23EcDuiIbCa
> >>
> >> Admittedly I haven't seen one before. The quality of manufacturing is
> surprisingly good. It reports "CBM DOS V2.6 1541" although as
> rominfo.silverdr.com says ;-) it surely isn't CBM DOS as found in 1541.
> >>
> >> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/58002657/fd5500.bin
> >>
> >> Does anyone know those?
> >
> >
> > On 2016-06-03, at 14:20, Konrad B <konrad0x42@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > http://www.zimmers.net/anonftp/pub/cbm/pictures/gpage1/19.jpg
> >
> > Rapid Access FD-148
>
> Hmm.. and probably half a dozen other names too.. I see - the rom contains
>
> "Copyright (C) 1985 Blue Chip Electronics, Inc."
>
> and I see on your (is that yours?) picture several drives with "Blue Chip"
> labels. So a clone of a clone ;-)
> --
> SD!
>
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