TPDD Cables

Overview

 

Even though we have modern alternatives to the venerable Tandy Portable Disk Drive(2) nothing beats playing with one of these peculiar, battery powered, vintage 3.5” disk drives. Very often they show up on popular auction sites without the cable which is bad news as the cable contains the RS232 voltage level conversion circuit. The original cables can also fail, developing internal breaks.

A broken cable prompted my friend, the same guy who created the Backpack drive, to build a new cable for his TDDD-2. He rercently came up with an improved version which uses a molded DB25 calbe with nice large thumbscrews. The cable plugs into the TPDD(2) and had a DB25M on the other end of the 3 foot long (1M) cable that will plug directly into a TRS-80 M100, etc.

Now you can get a new cable for your TPDD(2) and relive the glory days of loading and saving to 3.5" discs :)

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