Re: Anyone have any info on the PEDISK II floppy controller?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Naberezny" <mike@naberezny.com>
To: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 11:51 AM
Subject: Re: Anyone have any info on the PEDISK II floppy controller?


> On 4/22/13 2:16 PM, MikeS wrote:
>> Might be worth while to drop Dave a line asking what supporting
>> firmware/software/documentation he has for both the Z-RAM and the PEDISK;
>> maybe we could even talk him into lending them in case someone feels up
>> to cloning one or both of them...
>
> Ruud tried to contact him about the Z-RAM a while back but I don't think
> he responded.  I've since found the manual and disks for the Z-RAM and
> they are on my site.  I have not found any of the materials for the PEDISK
> yet.
> ... This photo shows the PEDISK installed in an 8032:
> http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/pet/h/pet8032o.jpg

Yeah, that's one of the pics I'd originally linked to.

I contacted Dave and he's willing to lend out the boards if someone
(preferably local - Steve?) wants to reverse engineer them; he can also take
hi-res pictures of both sides if that helps.

Unfortunately he's never gotten the combo to work:

"NOTE: That I've never gotten the board to actually do anything ... The disk
controller makes "booting motions" but I never got anything to come up on
it."

Sounds like he probably doesn't have the CRS/PDOS PEDISK disks, and aside
from some notes the only docs he has is the ZRAM manual which I think you
(mike) also have.

I wonder what, if anything, Willi managed to find in the meantime?

(the other) mike


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