Ibex 7202 CP/M z80 with twin 8" drives

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hails
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Ibex 7202 CP/M z80 with twin 8" drives

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Hello! I have a very nice condition IBEX 7202 which has dual 8" drives .... but are not reliable - or the floppies are degrading... or both!
My plan is to get a "Rev F" emulator and a 50 pin cable converter and see if I can start using the Emulator instead of the drives...

Couple of questions

1. Rev F - the right choice?
2. If no Floppy Images exist on the interwebs for IBEX (I checked out bitsavers etc), is it within the scope of a low-grade home technical person (like me!) to create a boot image for the Emulator?
3. 50 pin-to- 34 pin floppy converter - any recommendations?

thanks in advance!
h

hails
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Re: Ibex 7202 CP/M z80 with twin 8" drives

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Well in good news I found an image for the Ibex from retroarchive.org/maslin/disks/8inch/index.html
So if anyone can guide me - is Rev F the way to go, and what's a sensible way for me to convert 50pin Ibex to regular floppy?

cheers!

namachari
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Re: Ibex 7202 CP/M z80 with twin 8" drives

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"what's a sensible way for me to convert 50pin Ibex to regular floppy?"

Purchased a fd50to34 bare board and built it up: https://oshpark.com/shared_projects/Hr1FTWxB

Phil

hails
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Re: Ibex 7202 CP/M z80 with twin 8" drives

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thank you Phil - just ordered!! (3 of them, minimum order it would seem :-) which is good because I have two IBM AS/400 boxes lying around with 8" drives... future project)

Is there a functional difference between Rev F device and Rev C? I was interested in rev C due to it being in an enclosed box...

cheers
h

Roger@Arrick.com
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Re: Ibex 7202 CP/M z80 with twin 8" drives

Post by Roger@Arrick.com »

Hi Hails,
I've owned IBEX computers for 40 years.
I currently have a 7202 CPU monitor/keyboard but
lost the drives a long time ago.
Let me know if you wanna get rid of those drives, I'd like to make mine whole.

Roger in Texas

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