I miss that machine, I had it when I was young, was given to me by a neighbor.

Yea, it should do a normal floppy, but match the pinout to the standard ATA floppy pinout to be safe. You have a gorgeous machine, and I am sad I broke mine, an act I regret daily.

Cool, thanks!

Also, I imagine its BIOS will recognize a CD-ROM as slave (HDD master) on the one IDE channel, ya think?

Cheers,
James

if the floppy has only one cable, and no power. the short answer is no.

if it looks like a standard floppy connection, it likely is. The ps/2 systems were the special snowflakes when it comes to parts.

Check this page. It may or may not be relevant to your PS/1. There are instructions on how to replace the custom drive with a standard floppy drive.

https://ps1stuff.wordpress.com/how-tos/ibm-ps … py-replacement/

Ampera wrote:

I miss that machine, I had it when I was young, was given to me by a neighbor.

Yea, it should do a normal floppy, but match the pinout to the standard ATA floppy pinout to be safe. You have a gorgeous machine, and I am sad I broke mine, an act I regret daily.

How'd you break your PS/1?

jmusic_man wrote:

Ampera wrote:

I miss that machine, I had it when I was young, was given to me by a neighbor.

Yea, it should do a normal floppy, but match the pinout to the standard ATA floppy pinout to be safe. You have a gorgeous machine, and I am sad I broke mine, an act I regret daily.

How'd you break your PS/1?

Messed around with a screwdriver shorting random jumpers to see what would happen. I got the VGA card to make funny colours until the machine never worked again.

Also my DX4-100 machine requires you to not detect the disc drive in BIOS. Just label it like the drive is not there and load the appropriate drivers.

Ampera wrote:

Messed around with a screwdriver shorting random jumpers to see what would happen. I got the VGA card to make funny colours until the machine never worked again.

I second that.

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Ampera wrote:

Messed around with a screwdriver shorting random jumpers to see what would happen. I got the VGA card to make funny colours until the machine never worked again.

Yea, boneheaded.

The real irony though is I was just watching DS9, watching from s1e1 to s7e26

I really like S06E19 and S01E19.

luckybob wrote:

I really like S06E19 and S01E19.

Lucky you, well not really, I am half way through S01E19 as I wrote the previous and this post (Had it paused) for some reason I have never seen most of the Season 1 episodes, they are a shell of the future series, but there were series with worse starts *COUGH* Voyager *COUGH COUGH*

I liked voyager as a kid, but now all I see is "gilligan's island in space"

luckybob wrote:

I liked voyager as a kid, but now all I see is "gilligan's island in space"

Voyager is a great series, not the best, but definitely not the worst (I think TOS and TAS are the worst, TNG and VOY are ahead and behind in some places with each other, DS9 is great, with ENT being woefully underappreciated.

enterprise was okay. What really turned me off were the common moments where the show disappears up its own ass trying to "clever" by foreshadowing tos and tng.

luckybob wrote:

enterprise was okay. What really turned me off were the common moments where the show disappears up its own ass trying to "clever" by foreshadowing tos and tng.

I've seen so many Star Trek episodes I can smell an inconsistency a mile away. My least favourite moments of Enterprise is the segments with more parts than you can count about the stupid Xindi crap. I like the multi part stuff in other Star Trek series, but Enterprise just made them boring, but when they are not beating a dead horse, Enterprise is pretty good.