Hacked a 1581 into a 1011 case

[StyleCHM]

Hi all
On the weekend I took a spare 1581 PCB and amiga drive mech and hacked them into an Amiga 1011 external drive case.

Given the relative sizes of the 1011 and the 1581 cases, it was quite a feat - there isnt any room left in the case at all.

Some of the space saving things I had to do included:
* Removing the cover from the drive mech
* desoldering the 1581 kernal socket and soldering a jiffydos eprom in directly
* cutting away the plastic used for the screw holes so the PCB would sit right on the bottom

Its now basically a 1581 in a *much* smaller case. Still a little bit of work to do, just need to stop the PCB moving when you plug the power and serial cables in

Next on the chopping block is my internal 1581 mod

[xlar54]

What kind of power supply are you running that 128 on?  Never seen a black cable for that before.

[StyleCHM]

Its an original Commodore 128 power supply - but not one of the newer amiga-looking ones, its the same case as the old c64 brick c64 power supply but it's grey instead of black. 4A 5VDC, 1A 9VAC from memory.

Its *just* out of shot on both of these photos

[RobertB]

On the weekend I took a spare 1581 PCB and amiga drive mech and hacked them into an Amiga 1011 external drive case.

Heh, at the Vintage Computer Festival X I sold a broken-cased 1011 drive for $2 to a FCUG member.  He was to pull out the mech and use it in his 1581 kit.

Truly,
Robert Bernardo
Fresno Commodore User Group
http://videocam.net.au/fcug
The Other Group of Amigoids
http://www.calweb.com/~rabel1/

[smf]

On the weekend I took a spare 1581 PCB and amiga drive mech and hacked them into an Amiga 1011 external drive case.

Heh, at the Vintage Computer Festival X I sold a broken-cased 1011 drive for $2 to a FCUG member.  He was to pull out the mech and use it in his 1581 kit.

Someone should do an 1581 controller on an fpga. I don't think trying to get them to add a 3 1/2" floppy connector to the 1541 ultimate is going to work though.

[StyleCHM]

there's a 1581 clone floating around somewhere........

[StyleCHM]

What kind of power supply are you running that 128 on?  Never seen a black cable for that before.

Found a photo here