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Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... less risk of bending the floppy drive. This aluminium was retrieved from ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
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I think single drive power would be OK if ... always much info on the floppy drive though the NEC 80T ones ... turn around the big grey floppy connector on the PC drives ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... ease with which the floppy drives could be ... removed on floppy drive change when a new floppy needed to ... be tested and when the drive ... cage was required to house this new floppy. ... drive cages were to be treated as fixtures and the floppy ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... both an external 3.5" floppy drive and a 3.5" hard ... disk drive. You can see my extremely ... could call it a "tape drive assembly". It's held steady ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... about floppy drives altogether .
2) What is a Shughart floppy drive ... ? Shughart compatible floppy drives are not necessarily ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... was one of the cheap floppy power supplies I ordered and ... misplaced. Nevertheless the "soldered on" floppy cable is a bit restrictive ... to and removal of the floppy drives : I have ordered in ... hand tightness.This will make floppy drive removal a lot easier. -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
Ambiguous Grounds on the Floppy power supplies
One ... cables that different types of floppy drive have in the rear power ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
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The Opus floppy drive power connector is a "3 ... the +3 Spectrum?. Was the drive connector a 3 or 4 ... is another aspect :- Did the floppy drives themselves become more fragile ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
Hi Mark
Thanks for the reply . Well that closes that down i think.
I am not having much luck getting long floppy drive bolts : M3 was wrong and 6-32 was wrong . Some proper research needed on this to get the right thread size! -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... having much luck getting long floppy drive bolts : M3 was wrong and ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
More on the external floppy drive power supplies.
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The Idiot's guide to 3.5 inch floppies on a +3All help gratefully received, including blow by blow instructions and tutorials. I am interseted in adding a floppy drive (3.5 inch) to my +3 as an …
... get an old PC internal floppy drive from ebay. I used to ... -
The Idiot's guide to 3.5 inch floppies on a +3All help gratefully received, including blow by blow instructions and tutorials. I am interseted in adding a floppy drive (3.5 inch) to my +3 as an …
... diode stuck into a second floppy connector.
Just bear ... of cases using an external floppy drive for commercial disk releases isn ... fan of messing about with floppy disks for their own sake ... a PC capable of writing floppy disks? -
The Idiot's guide to 3.5 inch floppies on a +3All help gratefully received, including blow by blow instructions and tutorials. I am interseted in adding a floppy drive (3.5 inch) to my +3 as an …
... prefer a 3.5 inch drive over sd since it's ... do have an external usb floppy drive with vista. Isn't there ... lay out dsk images to floppy? -
The Idiot's guide to 3.5 inch floppies on a +3All help gratefully received, including blow by blow instructions and tutorials. I am interseted in adding a floppy drive (3.5 inch) to my +3 as an …
... can't use a USB floppy drive to write disk images as ... you can use a USB floppy drive to get data from a ... -
The Idiot's guide to 3.5 inch floppies on a +3All help gratefully received, including blow by blow instructions and tutorials. I am interseted in adding a floppy drive (3.5 inch) to my +3 as an …
... built-in 3.5 inch floppy drive. I used to use CPCDiskXP ... didn't have the right floppy drive settings in it's bios ... /+3 3 inch drive, to a PC via the floppy connector. For ... 's bios to the correct floppy drive as it's best to ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
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Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... blanking plate connects to the floppy drive . I had long forgotten the ... the unmodified state of the floppy drive plate . This owner apparently had ... reason to saw off the drive plate to gain access to ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
Good news on the Floppy Drive (5v and 12v) power supply ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... it is assumed that the floppy drive cables can be carried ... (2nd plate) new floppy "drive"plate then this drive plate is bolted on ... /> The idea is that the floppy "drive" plate can be easily unbolted ... of the "fixed length" floppy drive cable which is a major ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... the ram upgrade and extra floppy drive, I found an article in ... site that describes the 4 floppy mod and 4K upgrade to ... 's rgb or for external floppy drive but once I have used ... the drive for a bit I might ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... range with 128K and 2 floppy drives. "Opeless" they might be ... !.
The 2 plate "floppy on top" method (as described ... for each of the 2 floppy drives . The bottom 2 ... other sitting astride a new floppy drive case top enclosure . The third ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... benefits of the proposed ultimate "floppy on top" super powered Ziggurat ... just thought , the original Opus Drive plate with the Opus identifying ... used again to top the floppy drive case to support the 3 ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... how to optimize the floppy and the drive plate . At first ... Great flexibility . Each drive plate will have 2 floppy drives on it ... used with the Opus so " floppy drive flexibility" is a good feature ... downside is that more metal floppy drive plates will need to ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... top plates for the floppy drives . This "plated" floppy drive system is removable ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... the removal of the 2 floppy drives
However today ... will just concentrate on the floppy drive gap "blanking problem" -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... managed to block up the "floppy drive" gaps with black "doorstop plastic ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
Black plastic covers the floppy drive gap[URL=http://s827.photobucket. ... -
Opus Discovery "the big switch on" (after 20 years)I have a few of these Opus Discovery's with different Eproms in that have not been swiched for 15-20 years or so . I am in no rush to switch any on …
... on the top end Opus floppy drive plates . At the moment the ... stand can be used for drive testing so there is no ... -
Sinclair Research Limited - An Alternate Reality.So, we all know that Sinclair Research went down the tubes because of a lack of focus on the core product, computers. We know that Clive wasted it on…
... needed a single 3.5" floppy drive in place of the Microdrives ... from an optional 3.5" floppy.
The Psion busness packages ...
