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   Louis Ohland to Robert Prins   
   Re: Mis-identified? Re: IBM 4869 CD driv   
   08 Mar 24 06:04:13   
   
   From: ohland@charter.net   
      
   I looked at the two pictures, and yes, it IS a 4869 case. No doubts. Red   
   power switch. "Design Protection Applied For"   
      
   The connector end of the cable is a DB25.   
      
   Since Robert has foundt a manuel for a Micro Solutions floppy drive, it   
   seems possumble that a "Battlefloppy" was modified to support a CDROM.   
      
   This makes me curious, blue. The mod should be pretty straight forward.   
   I wandt to see some privat feelty-feely T00l-P0rn inside the opened case.   
      
   Robert Prins wrote:   
   > On 2024-03-07 22:49, Louis Ohland wrote:   
   >> Oops. Maybe they used a parallel port CDROM and swapped the DB37 for a   
   >> DB25?   
   >>   
   >> The Micro Solutions Backpack is a -Parallel Port- connected CDROM   
   >>   
   >> Louis Ohland wrote:   
   >>> I suppose it is possumble to use a floppy interface CDROM [akin to   
   >>> the Micro Solutions Backpack].   
   >   
   > This might be a clue, in the aluminium case in which this thing came   
   > there was also a manual for a Micro Solutions floppy disk drive, though   
   > not the drive! I think my father might have had one of the latter, but   
   > it was not in any of the banana boxes (27) we took from the Netherlands   
   > in December, there are still about a dozen in the Netherlands, with more   
   > stuff, so whenever we go there again with the car, they may come this   
   > way, and I'll have to check. And "whenever" could be April, but it could   
   > also be September...   
   >   
   > Robert   
      
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