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echo: classic_computer
to: JASEN BETTS
from: CRAIG GAGNER
date: 2004-03-18 13:58:50
subject: RE: Commodore Colt Stuff

Thanks Jasen 

Would love to find an old original HD. I have a 16 bit VGA but the system wont 
come up, cant find the books to set the jumpers correctly.

On 3/18/2004 1:57 PM, JASEN BETTS wrote to CRAIG GAGNER:

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-> REPLY: 1:123/750 0000003C
-> TZUTC: 1000
-> Hi Craig.
-> 
-> 
-> The drive was an 8 bit variation of the IDE drive interface. in New
-> Zealand, Commodore was left wit a surplus of thise drives when they left the
-> XT-clone market and was putting them into Amigas too.
-> 
-> any other XT drive should work if you use the apropriate XT drive
-> controller card with it,
-> 
-> as for VGA cards, there are no 8-bit VGA cards AFAIK.
-> _but_ all of the 16 bit ones would work in an 8 bit slot, some had a
-> jumper, but many would autodetect.
-> 
 
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