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Paul, A dedicated tape controller card is the FC-10 or TC-15 board that only runs the tape drive and doesn't interface with the floppy drives or the floppy controller card. The AB-10 is a tape adapter board that interfaces with the floppy controller card as well as the tape drive.…
Stacy, Thanks for your response. Yes, I am well grounded – I have a clip lead running from the tape drive's ground wire to a ground point on the chassis of the computer. One thing in your response puzzles me, however: -> You might be happier running the tape drive…
Paul, If you are going to have a makeshift drive, be sure that everything is grounded properly, or you will continue to get shoeshining. You might be happier running the tape drive externally off of a dedicated tape controller card and leaving your floppy drives alone. Make sure you are…
Fish: My knowledge of network hardware is EXTREMELY limited…I'll have to open one of `em up & get back to^C BASE-2, thickwire/large COAX/10BASE-5 or Unshieled Twisted Pair/UTP/ 10BASE-T; we use the later), but the prices for those have gone down a lot lately. I regularly buy them for about $50.…
Stacey, Well, I did have some trouble – turns out the KE-09 did come with a "Ralph" so that was not the problem. But the DJ-10 is a tad long for the KE-09 case – so the drive stuck out some in front. Worse, I think there is an incompatility.…
Chris: > If anyone has any interest in these… Yea, I do. What kind of network connector is included? I couldn't use 10BASE-2 or -5, but AIC or 10BASE-T would work. Are they diskless? Do you have the docs and disks? (Even diskless, you'd need to install something on the…
#Old Novell Stations
Message #381284
Anybody: Anyone here know of anybody who might be interested in acquiring a pair of old Novell barebone 8-bit dedicated stations? I really don't have any idea of their worth. They have 8088-2 cpus, network connectors hardwired to the motherboard, 1Mb of RAM, and XT-class slots and keyboards. They were…
Paul, Of course, we can always use good reports. Thanks! You can try the older tape drive in the KE-09 but just be aware that you may have some installation difficulty. The "Ralph" is a special adapter that goes from a pin edge connector and turns it into a card…
#KE-09 compatibl w/AB-10?
Message #380781
Thanks, Stacey, Yup, we finally got ourselves on the right message tracks! Hmmm. By this, I guess you mean I can't harm anything by trying my present combination (the DJ-10 drive and AB-10 card) with the KE-09 clamshell. Hmmm again: what's a "Ralph"?! Didn't see anything like that in my…
SCSI programming?
Message #180228
I'm about to embark on a project that will involve low-level SCSI programming. We're using it to interface two computers together. I'm looking for advice on resources to do this: Is there a standard software interface to the SCSI device driver, or is each board's lowest-level driver different? I recently…