Re: ZoomFloppy - formatting a disk in a 2031 disk drive

From: Mia Magnusson <mia_at_plea.se>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 10:01:40 +0200
Message-ID: <20180510100140.00005acb@plea.se>
Den Wed, 9 May 2018 22:02:22 -0400 skrev Ethan Dicks
<ethan.dicks@gmail.com>:
> > I could try to solder the IEEE connector to my ZF, but my soldering
> > skills are near to non-existant, and I fear I might brick my ZF. :(
> 
> I happened to purchase mine with the IEEE connector but my soldering
> skills are fine.

Btw, why do people buy ZoomFloppy when they don't intend to use the
IEEE 488 port? A XUM1541 does the same job for a smaller amount of
money.

> Since you asked Ville, let me say that my cable is a 2m-long lab-grade
> shielded IEEE cable that I got from work (10+ years ago) when they
> were tossing old test equipment.  It appears to be new or nearly new.
> I have other cables as well.  I have it connected as Laptop<->USB Mini
> cable<->Zoomfloppy<->2m IEEE cable<->2031.  Nothing else on the bus.

ZoomFloppy seems to not have the IEEE standard driver IC's, but drive
the IEEE bus directly from the modern microcontroller. Is the I/O on
the microcontroller really up to the IEEE 488 specifications?

I would try a shorter cable.


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Received on 2018-05-10 11:00:02

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