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  • Founded: Jun 20, 2006
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For discussion and sharing of all things related to the HP 83, 85, 86, and 87 computers, developed by the Corvallis, Oregon division of Hewlett-Packard in the late 1970's and early 1980's.

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Re: Serial Interface [on floppy drive]
You could very well be right there. I have a couple of IBM Thinkpad Floppy drives which can be plugged into the ultrabay or attached to a special cable that
Posted - Tue Feb 9, 2010 6:37 am
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Re: Serial Interface [on floppy drive]
More than likely there is no interface electronics in the box other than the FD itself. The interface is likely stardard FD. -John
Posted - Tue Feb 9, 2010 1:19 am
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Re: Serial Interface [on floppy drive]
... Sounds to me it is more like a parallel interface device. Some laptop manufacturers interfaced floppy drives via the parallel interface but the protocol
Posted - Tue Feb 9, 2010 12:58 am
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Re: Serial Interface [on floppy drive]
I dug it out this morning and had another look - it's not an IBM, both the drive and the plug are labelled "Compaq". Not being a computer whiz, I have just
Posted - Tue Feb 9, 2010 12:23 am
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Re: Serial Interface [on floppy drive]
How do you know it's a serial floppy? Because it has a DB25 connector? -John
Posted - Mon Feb 8, 2010 11:39 pm
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