Path: cdrom.com!barrnet.net!decwrl!pa.dec.com!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!crl.dec.com!crl.dec.com!caen!destroyer!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!ulowell!MathWorks.Com!transfer.stratus.com!noc.near.net!das-news.harvard.edu!husc-news.harvard.edu!husc.harvard.edu!scws13!girash Newsgroups: alt.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc Subject: Re: Tandt cd drive Message-ID: From: girash@scws13.harvard.edu (John Girash) Date: 18 Feb 94 18:34:35 GMT References: <2jt48kINNkcf@mickey.eng.gulfaero.com> Distribution: usa Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts NNTP-Posting-Host: scws13.harvard.edu Lines: 28 Xref: cdrom.com alt.cd-rom:695 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom:1321 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc:1311 bmccarth@gulfaero.com (Bill McCarthy) writes: >The heading should be Tandy, not Tandt, sorry. Anyway, I have a used >internal Tandy 1x cd drive that has the data cable and software to >install it. I was wondering if I could put it in an IBM ps2/60. I'd >need a card to control it. Any ideas, suggestions. The drive is not >SCSI. I took it out of my home system when I installed a 2x Panasonic, >and the Tandy is just gathering dust, so... TIA. We put a Reveal (i.e. Egghead) internal 2x CDROM into my mother's Tandy 2500 (386sx) and it worked fine, so I see no reason why a Tandy drive won't go into a standard clone. Whether PS/2's are standard in this respect or not, I don't know. I was pleasantly surprised to see how much more standard the 2500 was, having had bad experiences with her old 1000sx, an 8088. The 2500 took standard simms, keyboard, mouse, VGA monitor and IDE HD, although the latter two's controllers were built onto the mb, and the IDE cable wasn't what I'm used to. (Not too different from the PS/2, I guess ;-). The most pleasant surprise was that the Reveal actually fit into the Tandy drive bay. (I had mail order places refuse to sell me a CDROM when I told them it was to be put into a Tandy, btw, and Radio Shlock wanted $400 for a -- "Don't listen when you're told / About the best days in your life : Spirit of A useless old expression, it means / Passing time until you die." : the West ---------------- John A Girash ----- girash@cfa.harvard.edu -------------- If these were Harvard's opinions, it would be up north (but not in Toronto).