Booting A1200 from Zip/Jazz drive possible??

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Ok, thanks for all this help. This shouldn't be so bad once I can actually get some time to GET the materials and put them together. :inquisitive: It looks like a fun project.

I hope I can borrow my friends digital camera so I can post a picture of the final product.

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The treasure hunt was partially successfull! :banana:

I located:

Jumper Box
D25 plug
D25 socket
D9 plug
1uF capacitator

None of the Radio Sacks in Oakland had buffer chips or DIL sockets. A couple of electronic stores in Berkeley were recomended, and hopefully, I'll be able to be able to spend a little time up there. Wish me luck. :-)

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Hmmmm :inquisitive:

I think it'll be the mess of unsoldering everything if the unbuffered doesn't work. :-D

Better safe then sorry. Hmmm?

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amigaguy wrote:
I made and used several of the unbuffered version back in the day.  Used them mostly on my A1200, but also CD32, A500, and A2000.  Never had any problems with the unbuffered version and never noticed any difference with the buffered version.

 Ah, the good old days :-)

Well, I'm looking forward to better days too. :-D

Ok, Mark suggested I go with a buffered version, and I had a hankering to try my hand at putting something together from scratch, so to speak. Especially, a project that's a little more complicated than soldering a wire together. I have all the componants I need to make an unbuffered connector, so that will be my project for Sunday, if I can't get the time during the week. :hammer:

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Well....

my first attempt, would best be described as, ummm

messy. :roll: :oops:

It's like using muscles you haven't used in awhile. I haven't soldered in years!! But, I quickly caught on.

The current connectors aren't usable, but, luckily, I found this old electronic store in Berkeley (been around since the 50's) and got some 25pin male/female connectors for a couple of bucks. So, I'll try again tonight. :hammer:

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Here's the latest bulletin from the front lines... dit dit ditdit. :-)


[color=0000ff]Attempt #2[/color][/u]

I didn't get much sleep last night, but I got ALL of the straight connections soldered together with no problems. The 2-2, 3-3, etc.
Next is stripping wire in lengths to connect the odd connections since the supplied wire that came with the box isn't long enough.

Then, hooking up the joystick connector. Make sure the wire is the right length!!

Keep your fingers crossed! :-D  :-D  :-D

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More wires soldered. All that's left is to solder the 9pin to the wires connected to the main unit and it'll be finished!:nervous:

I'm surprised I didn't burn my fingers :shocked: I had to hold the wires just milimeters from the iron.

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Ok, here we go!!! :inquisitive:

All wires connected.

[color=008000]check![/color][/b][/i]

Proper files in their relevent places on the workbench disk.
[color=ffa500]Check!![/color][/b][/i]

Zip drive connected and turned on
[color=800000]Check![/color][/i]

Turn computer on
[color=ff0000]Check!!![/color][/b][/i]

aaaaaaaaaaannnnddd :-o


nothing  :evil:  :angry:  :madashell:  :getmad:  :boohoo:  :ranting:


Ok, let me look back here, ahhh, a wire came loose. Ah me, more work to do.

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I have to do more than that. It came loose because the joystick wires barely reached the port and I had to stretch things more then I should have. I have to cut new wires now and unsolder the one's connected. Bleah!! :-P

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[color=ff0000]Yeee[/color][color=ffa500]HAAAA![/color][/b][/i]
 :lol:  :-P  :-o  :-)  ;-)  :idea:  :roflmao:  :laughing:  :laugh:

It works!!!!

And by putting the drivers in my CDboot floppy, I have access to my CDROM drive.

Now I have to figure out what to put on the ZIP disk and how.

Whew!!

Thanks guys. You've been a ton of help.