Dying PCjr drive; options?

[Jim Leonard]

Dave Dunfield wrote:
>>Sadly, the drive is so far off that I can't get the thing to boot at all to run 
>>ImageDisk :-(  But thanks for the instructions; I will clip'n'save them.
> 
> Actually, it never occured to me that anyone would try to do this by booting
> from the drive. I was thinking that you would pull the drive and drop it onto
> a working system.

Excuse me as I remove my foot from my mouth.  I've been working with the old 
hardware for so long it never occured to me to remove it and work with it on 
another machine!  What a dufus am I...

> One thing I have on my bench which is very handy, is the PC has modified drive
> cable which brings drive 'B' out to a 37-pin 'D' connector on the back, and
> a plug-in cable to allow me to easily connect external drives. I use this both
> for testing drives, and for imaging from/to 5.25" and 8" drives.

Ironically, I have a 5150 with the full-length FDC with a very long port on it 
(something like 40-pin female?) that I assume I could connect drives to... but 
I have no idea what the pinout is or where to obtain a cable.  I am not the 
soldering type (watch me duck as the flying tomatoes come from the peanut gallery)

> I have details/photos on how to make the cables and adapters posted to my site.
> Look at "Disks/Software images" near the bottom, and then "notes on connecting
> an 8" drive.

Will do, thank you.
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