Hi Neil, I would need a disk cabinet, the cable should be permanently attached. I believe at some point I was supposed to take one of the worse off units from VCFeds warehouse actually to help them with space. It’s just not been discussed in a while and folks on the board have changed a few times so it would need to be brought back up if they are still wanting one gone. I have the drives and controller out of a later model 5120 (where the drives are built in) theoretically I might be able to rig those up in an enclosure and build a cable and that might work but need to find the time. So a few options. Until recently not a ton of software for the 5100 series has been preserved but someone recently stumbled on a machine with a lot of software and CE disks so hopefully they will be able to get that all imaged. Herb, it’s a 5110 with BASIC and APL, 64K of ram and I believe an asynchronous comms adapter. If I’m interpreting the ALDs correctly. So it’s a nice config. Thanks, -Connor K
On Jul 10, 2024, at 10:45 AM, Daniel FitzGerald <danjfitzgerald@comcast.net> wrote:
Neil,
Not sure; Connor would know best. I've put him on copy.
- Dan
On 07/09/2024 11:36 PM EDT Neil Cherry <ncherry@linuxha.com> wrote:
On 7/9/24 22:40, Dan FitzGerald via vcf-midatlantic wrote: Herb,
That's Connor's 5110. His particular model didn't come with the built- in quicktape drive... not like that would matter, all those tapes are broken now anyway. So without the external 8" disk unit, we have no way of loading or storing programs on/from it. It supports BASIC and APL, but without disk our any kind of I/O really isn't useful.
Do you need the drive or is it a whole card, cable, drive, etc.?
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