I had a cable that had 5 connectors on it and had the twist in it but I ended up only finding one thats a straight cable 3 connectors one being the now standard floppy connector on the board then two of the over-the-board connectors for the 5 1/4 floppydrive... I will look for the cable with the twist...
Also Paralel i truely hope it isn't mold its strange though... not what you really explained... Its VERY thin and is somewhat clear but has the general color of white... some places (supposedly) being thinner then others causing it to go from clear to a foggy white... It appears as if it could rub off like its just on the disk lightly (NO I will not touch inside of the disk that may have sounded like I did or was going to
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Also this IS a 1.2MB drive... Its a Mitsubishi M4853 Supposedly from 83-84 for the fact that inside the Burroughs (since its out of that machine) has like 20 date codes all written in sharpy and all the years being 84... Also I know I may need an older machine but I've seen people put these things and successfully use them in probably about pentium 4 machines... I WAS going to try and put it in my main computer (which has an asus motherboard and a core 2 quad processor) but I went to the bios and only had two settings for 3 1/2 drives... SO I went down to my basement and brought up the guts of an old pentium 3 Compaq... Hoping it would work...
The drive does have what appears to be one belt for the head movement but it seems to still move the head fine so I'm leaving it be...
You spoke about jumpers... There are at like 10 on the board... :confused4:
And a rubbing-alcohol bath? Erm... Mind to demonstrate or to develop on that more? Last I heard bringing the diskettes to any liquid isn't quite a good idea...
If all else fails... I'm now looking at another old machine that has the capability to have both a 5 1/4 drive which we know would work and a 3 1/2 to transfer the files onto...
Mentioning such a machine brings back a memory I had as a kid... My dad was going onsite to repair a machine for this small architecture company and I think my dad knew the guy a bit too so he brought me along... When we arrived to the small office my dad got to the computer (probably like a pentium 3-4 something around there) BUT when I turned the corner of a cubical I saw a old yellowed plastic beast sitting on a desk... It had like a 5 1/4 drive and a 3 1/2 drive... and I think it had an old monochrome monitor sitting next to it... My jaw dropped and I ran over to it and the guy my dad was doing the work for noticed that I found the machine and quickly came over to explain it and turned it on to show me him transferring files between the two types of diskettes... He said some of his old architecture designs or something were on 5 1/4 floppys so I guess he still used them! I cant remember what it was but It was an upright case... and made of yellowed plastic... That was probably one of the first times I saw a 5 1/4 floppy drive... Probably where my obsession with these old things came from!
Anyway... I guess I will have to look into a machine like that for transferring my files if I can't get this working...
Oh btw I'm now looking for a Burroughs Terminal... And I found one...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Burroughs-T...099096?pt=US_Thin_Clients&hash=item564dc75f18
I'd pay the price of it... But... IT HAS SCREEN BURN and the only way I've found to fix that... BUY A NEW TUBE.... tube prices... TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS A PEICE!!!!
So yea...
ALSO when I was looking at the power routing from the power plug... which has like... 10 pins in the plug... I found out... like 5 pins go to ground... the other 5 pins go to a power rail... so... 10 pins... two connections... basically the company made it so you had to buy THEIR power supply I guess... I will either find a way around 'their' power supply or keep searching for the things... I will hopefully post another forum about the Burroughs later...
So yea... Lots to do...
Also update on the Packard if you cared to hear... The front end is all off and the engine is out for rebuild... So things are going along nicely with that... and of course since this is me and my parents working on it... I assigned myself the job of the electrical system... And its a 6 volt system which is interesting and new for me... I haven't worked on cars much but it seems straight forward... I have a wiring diagram... But ALLL the wire needs to be replaced... along with all of its old braided wire... which is sadly cracking and falling apart... I want to find a source for this braided wire though! I want to keep it original and thus I need this braided wire... Anyone know about the stuff? Not the place to ask but you guys have had all the answers so far.
Edit: That was a LOT more then I thought it was...
Edit2: Also I said I only saw a belt for the motor for the head assembly, the motor for turning the diskette is right bellow the center piece and is directly attached like new floppy drives are.
Edit3: The description of the Burroughs monitor said the images of the screen are stock images so I contacted the seller asking if both his units are screen burned and also asked for images of the actual units.
Edit4: Leeb... you would not imagine the 5 1/4 floppys I found... i found 13 disks... that says... ACAD 12 EXECUTABLES... :D
like i told you before... my grandfather has been using auto cad for years... so lucky... so lucky they kept these floppys... they moved them from where i saw them years ago as a kid... i thoguht they tossed them... but i found them... :D
actually... i found so many ACAD floppys (27 to be exact)... support disks, renders, and a bunch of other stuff...