Date : Thu, 21 Dec 2006 08:27:11 +0000
From : pete@... (Pete Turnbull)
Subject: Digital Services Digistore Tape Drive
Ian Wolstenholme wrote:
> Thanks for the ROM and the command list, really very much
> appreciated.
You're welcome :-)
> As soon as I get a cable knocked up to connect both the
> Winchester disc and the Digistore at the same time (why
> did Acorn put that 37-pin D-type socket on the back??!!!)
Because it's the most robust common connector they could find for the
1MHz bus, which needs 34 pins. Digital Services provided a cable with a
DC37 on each end to conect a Digistore to a Winchester. BTW, you do
realise it's supposed to be a daisy-chained bus, like a SCSI bus?