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Got some pics, and there is a very simmple PCB with no apparent
components. I then suggested the PCB might tie all the grounds
together... like with a MCS-600 SCSI adapter with... a DB25 port...
I think this 4869-CD is a standard XM3101BME SCSI CDROM, with a simmple
PCB to convert it to a DB25, cable connects to a SCSI adapter...
Louis Ohland wrote:
I looked at the two pictures, and yes, it IS a 4869 case. No doubts. Red power switch. "Design Protection Applied For"
The connector end of the cable is a DB25.
Since Robert has foundt a manuel for a Micro Solutions floppy drive, it seems possumble that a "Battlefloppy" was modified to support a CDROM.
This makes me curious, blue. The mod should be pretty straight forward.
I wandt to see some privat feelty-feely T00l-P0rn inside the opened case.
Robert Prins wrote:
On 2024-03-07 22:49, Louis Ohland wrote:
Oops. Maybe they used a parallel port CDROM and swapped the DB37 for
a DB25?
The Micro Solutions Backpack is a -Parallel Port- connected CDROM
Louis Ohland wrote:
I suppose it is possumble to use a floppy interface CDROM [akin to
the Micro Solutions Backpack].
This might be a clue, in the aluminium case in which this thing came
there was also a manual for a Micro Solutions floppy disk drive,
though not the drive! I think my father might have had one of the
latter, but it was not in any of the banana boxes (27) we took from
the Netherlands in December, there are still about a dozen in the
Netherlands, with more stuff, so whenever we go there again with the
car, they may come this way, and I'll have to check. And "whenever"
could be April, but it could also be September...
Robert
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