One of the hard cards I recieved today conatins an 8-bit SMS/OMTI 552 MFM controller and Tandon 262 drive. Does anyone have any specs on this controller card?...
Hi Chris, you're right of course. I picked up a new sIDE-1/16 IDE DISK CONTROLLER, ACC IDE1/16R by ACCULOGIC today and it's on it's way from Texas. This...
I dont know what specs youre looking for Dave, but perhaps googling the individual chip part numbers can yield some results. ... 8-bit SMS/OMTI 552 ... (no...
... Try Total Hardware 99: http://www.thegreenhouse.us/th99/c/c8isa_t.php OMTI 552 isn't there, but there are several OMTI MFM cards listed, and they all seem...
I should have read Jeff's faq before acquiring the sIDE-1/16 IDE DISK CONTROLLER, ACC IDE1/16R........ Does the limitation apply to the Tandy 1000's with...
... _Upgrading Your Tandy_ says: "The Acculogic 1/16 will not work as purchased in 1000 series machines. For the controller to work with these computers, or...
Neil, the card has the following setting that I thought would work... (see below) And it's too bad as it's brand new, still sealed in the box.... My bad, poor...
H Jeff, I doubt if it's been modded as it still sealed in the box (new old stock) I received two RLL drives and two controllers this week and their my ...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5204622056 High bidder will get the Tandy 20 Meg Hard Disk Utilities Diskette you see above. *** NOT SOLD BY...
The guy who probably knows most is Frank Durda who often is on news:comp.sys.tandy Mike Yetsko also may know the exact 'fix' needed. Neil ... From: "Dave"...
A good friend of mine just died. He and I both got started in computers through the Commodore 64. Whereas I became interested in the Tandy 1000 line because of...
Looking for a 3.5" drive for an old 1000TX I'm trying to get running. I have GW/Basic disk...drive light goes on, tries to read disk, but says "Insert system...
Of late, my Web site at tvdog.shacknet.nu has been up and down, mostly down. The problem seems to be fixed now (beware of Microsofties bearing service packs)....
my 1000TX is finiky(sp) when it comes to booting from disk... make sure its a DS2DD[or a hack thereof] (not an HD) and in my case but may not be in yours when...
http://tinyurl.com/da7x6 I'm not affiliated with the seller. Compatible with the 1000's as a replacement? Might be a Tandon from the looks of it also.... ...
if you can find them the 3M disk drive cleaners do real well. I have one for my 5.25 drives as well. You really could tell the old TRS-80 I got from my old...
key word 'if' ... its hard to find floppies themselves (5/quarter isnt even made anymore)... let alone the cleaner disks (i have one for 3½ inch but no...
There is a department store around here that sells a pack with 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 cleaning disks. If anybody is interested, I could buy some and send them. They...
... Think the disk is bad. But it could be the drive, too. I've seen at least one TX with a 3.5" DD drive, with a 5-1/4" bay mounting adapter kit. Actually,...
... running. ... but ... I think it's a 720kb drive...but I really can't tell for sure...whenever I use a 720kb disk, the drive spins up, LED light turns on,...
... running. ... but ... disk ? ... I have DOS 3.21 and 3.3 boot disks I downloaded on to 720kb formatted DD disks. When I look at the files, everything seems...
... one for my 5.25 drives as well. You really could tell the old TRS-80 I got from my old highschool had NEVER been cleaned. It helped them out a lot. ... ...
... Downloaded the disks from a Tandy 1000 site to 720kb DD disks...I'll read the disks some more to see if they did get the IBMIO file...didn't know the TX...
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