I was Wrong - Xerox Memorywriter 645S Works!
Added 2024-01-29 15:32:44 +0000 UTCHello...again.
So I got enough comments and discussion about the drives and belts on the Xerox that I decided to look into them one more time and try just swapping out the drives. The results were...surprising to say the least.
This is a somewhat annoying situation to be in with the last video now but oh well. I strongly felt before that if the drives could read, they could write. So I didn't want to spend time on what I thought wasn't likely to be an issue and I didn't investigate the belts closer. I'll call this a learning experience now and keep that in mind in the future.
On the bright side, IT WORKS!
Video link: https://youtu.be/II5M968YBCM
Comments
I made some progress figuring out the structure of the floppy disks, I have been able to extract the files from the base and options disk. They seem to be mostly executables for the Z80. See https://github.com/pkooiman/Xerox645S_disks
Peter Kooiman
2024-01-31 17:27:52 +0000 UTCMaybe when reading the drive can adjust its timing based off of the data on the disk but writing leaves the timing entirely up to the drive?
Kyle Brown
2024-01-29 15:58:00 +0000 UTC
