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by Mr Lurch
Fri Aug 16, 2024 12:33 am
Forum: Exidy Sorcerer General Forum
Topic: G'day Internet
Replies: 8
Views: 93206

Re: G'day Internet

Ok - found what I THINK is the manual for the drives.
https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_m ... 7/mode/2up

And have confirmed that the DS and termination jumpers are correct.
by Mr Lurch
Tue Aug 13, 2024 7:42 am
Forum: Exidy Sorcerer General Forum
Topic: G'day Internet
Replies: 8
Views: 93206

Re: G'day Internet

Nope 😔
by Mr Lurch
Mon Aug 12, 2024 8:29 am
Forum: Exidy Sorcerer General Forum
Topic: G'day Internet
Replies: 8
Views: 93206

Re: G'day Internet

Reading the manual for the disk jockey it simply says the “A” drive needs to be at the end of the cable and needs to be terminated. Although I can’t find any termination hardware (I’m guessing it’s a jumper buried on the disk drive PCB).
by Mr Lurch
Sat Aug 10, 2024 1:06 am
Forum: Exidy Sorcerer General Forum
Topic: G'day Internet
Replies: 8
Views: 93206

Re: G'day Internet

Ok, yes - its a Morrow Design Dick Jockey 2D/B. I've been poking at it again today. All PSU's tested ok, so I decided to try and boot the machine. With the expansion unit on, and then powering the Exidy on, I can see the ram goes from 7FFF to D7FF - so I have to assume the Exidy is "seeing"...
by Mr Lurch
Fri Aug 09, 2024 8:57 am
Forum: Exidy Sorcerer General Forum
Topic: G'day Internet
Replies: 8
Views: 93206

Re: G'day Internet

I’ll take a look tomorrow, but I do know that they’re Morrow Design drives, so possibly it’s a Disk Jockey.
by Mr Lurch
Wed Aug 07, 2024 7:08 am
Forum: Exidy Sorcerer Hardware
Topic: Gotek question
Replies: 0
Views: 25637

Gotek question

Is it possible to hook up one of these to utilise a gotek? (+ anyone had luck with FlashFloppy?)
https://gitlab.com/NF6X_Retrocomputing/ ... ree/master
by Mr Lurch
Wed Aug 07, 2024 6:34 am
Forum: Exidy Sorcerer General Forum
Topic: G'day Internet
Replies: 8
Views: 93206

G'day Internet

Afternoon all, Thanks for letting me join. Although I have a reasonable collection of vintage machines, one grail item has always been an Exidy Sorcerer and as of yesterday afternoon I'm the proud owner of one. And on the initial test of the main machine - IT BOOTS! (Although I dont have a basic car...