First post, by babtras
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I have recently acquired a Datavue 25 Lunchbox PC (8088). It has no hard drive or hard drive controller and only a 360k 5.25" floppy drive, an Epson SD-521.
After getting the machine working again (bought it as a derelict), I want to boot DOS. But I have no 5.25" floppy disks.
The drive has a very familiar-looking 34-pin interface so I decided I'd try an emulator instead. When I swapped out the Epson SD-521 with the emulator and turned the machine on, one side of the floppy cable got extremely hot and the PC displayed corrupted gibberish on the LCD.
I put the 5.25" floppy back in and everything works again.
So my conclusion is that this isn't a standard 34-pin floppy interface, that it is something else.
Does anyone know anything about this Epson SD-521 or the Datavue 25 that might enlighten me what kind of floppy interface this is or what the pinout is so I can possibly manufacture an adapter?