Xerox 820

[Scott Stevens]

On Fri, 13 May 2005 09:29:23 -0700
Paxton Hoag <innfoclassics at gmail.com> wrote:

> There was a business in Beaverton who sold a simple board to run both
> 5 1/4" drives and 8 inch drives on the Xerox 820 at the same time.
> Evergreen technology??? Closed about 1990. I seem to remember it
> wasn't hard to build.
> 
> If anyone comes uiop with the info I would be intersted too as I still
> have an 820.
> 
> Paxton
> Astoria, OR
> 

I'm fairly certain that my BigBoard (I believe it was a clone of the
Xerox 820, I know it's an exact workalike) has a 50 pin connector for
the diskette drive.

I haven't ever brought up this particular BigBoard, but I had another
just like it in the 80's, which I used with 8" DSDD (720K) diskettes.

As I've said before I have my BigBoard all squirreled away with complete
docs including schematics.  I'm involved in a BUNCH of spring
housecleaning and hope to locate it in the near future.

-Scott

-Scott