21-07-2023, 05:10 PM
Cheers Ernest,
These actually came from a local collector in Malaga, who had purchased them to use with Sinclair Spectrums as dedicated external drives. (Don't ask me how that worked. Must have been a third party Shugart interface. I am sure they existed). He was cleaning out his storage and offered three of them to me for a great price.
My current plan is to add in a Gotek to replace the primary drive and have the 5¼" as the secondary drive, so you can read old data disks or write new disks from it. I've got a nice Gotek frame 3D printed to fit the 5¼" bay using a full sized LCD screen and a rotary dial.
One of the power supplies was fine out of the box. Two needed RIFAs replaced, and that's now complete. Unfortunately one is still showing out of spec so that's the one I'm contemplating replacing the entire PSU with the more modern Mean Well unit.
I'll need some more bits and pieces to get all three finished off. I've actually run out of Gotek drives so I'll need to order more from my usual supplier. I'll also need another two LCD panels, which I'll source locally most likely.
All in all it's been a good little project to work on.
John
These actually came from a local collector in Malaga, who had purchased them to use with Sinclair Spectrums as dedicated external drives. (Don't ask me how that worked. Must have been a third party Shugart interface. I am sure they existed). He was cleaning out his storage and offered three of them to me for a great price.
My current plan is to add in a Gotek to replace the primary drive and have the 5¼" as the secondary drive, so you can read old data disks or write new disks from it. I've got a nice Gotek frame 3D printed to fit the 5¼" bay using a full sized LCD screen and a rotary dial.
One of the power supplies was fine out of the box. Two needed RIFAs replaced, and that's now complete. Unfortunately one is still showing out of spec so that's the one I'm contemplating replacing the entire PSU with the more modern Mean Well unit.
I'll need some more bits and pieces to get all three finished off. I've actually run out of Gotek drives so I'll need to order more from my usual supplier. I'll also need another two LCD panels, which I'll source locally most likely.
All in all it's been a good little project to work on.
John
John "CheshireNoir" Parker
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