Brian, You're absolutely right - The original use case they were designed for likely saw no switch movement.
Kindest regards, Doug Jackson em: d...@doughq.com ph: 0414 986878 Check out my awesome clocks at www.dougswordclocks.com Follow my amateur radio adventures at vk1zdj.net ----------------------------------------------------------- Just like an old fashioned letter, this email and any files transmitted with it should probably be treated as confidential and intended solely for your own use. Please note that any interesting spelling is usually my own and may have been caused by fat thumbs on a tiny tiny keyboard. Should any part of this message prove to be useful in the event of the imminent Zombie Apocalypse then the sender bears no personal, legal, or moral responsibility for any outcome resulting from its usage unless the result of said usage is the unlikely defeat of the Zombie Hordes in which case the sender takes full credit without any theoretical or actual legal liability. :-) Be nice to your parents. Go outside and do something awesome - Draw, paint, walk, setup a radio station, go fishing or sailing - just do something that makes you happy. ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G- In more laid back days this line would literally sing ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G On Fri, Jul 17, 2020 at 4:24 PM Brian K. White <b.kenyo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/16/20 11:46 PM, Doug Jackson wrote: > > Thats awesome news. > > > > Sadly, that application is an abuse for that type of DIP switch - it is > > designed to be set and left alone inside a piece of equipment. > > To be fair to the drive designers, that's probably exactly the way it > was used, since the drive hardware was really made for Brother knitting > and sewing and embroidery machines not for a computer. > > Those machines probably did not ever need to switch the dip switches > because they probably never needed to do anything like bootstrap and > install software from a disk in the drive. Surely a sewing machine that > used a drive like this as an accessory, just had hardcoded firmware. > > We just have to flip the swithces because Tandy then saw it as an 99% > ready to go drive just needing a little software and a hacky serial<>ttl > cable to use it from the M100. > > -- > bkw >
