TK2000 DiskInterface REDUX

TK2000 Disk Interface REDUX

DISCLAIMER

Any use of this project is under your own responsibility. You will be responsible of checking the correct construction and functionality of your board. By using this project You will agree that I cannot be held responsible if it will destroy any of your devices, damage your computer, burn down your house or whatever.

Sponsorship

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Introduction

The TK2000 had a floppy disk adapter that came in form of a cart, connected directly to the computer, and supported only a single drive connected to it.

Luckily, the adapter was nothing more than a ripoff of the original Apple Disk II interface with some changes to adapt it to the TK2000 bus, so, starting with the recreation by btb as a base, I converted the original interface back to the TK2000, gaining support for a second floppy disk and configurable (via jumpers) I/O and ROM addresses.

This board is meant to be used in the TK2000 bus extender and is part of my project to build a set of cards for the TK2000 computer.

You can build yourself a TK2000 computer using files from this repo and following my build notes.

Hardware

The board was designed with KiCad EDA.

Bill of Materials

The ROMs

The ROMs have the first 8 address lines (A0-A7) connected to the bus, A8 is connected to a pull-down resistor and can be forced high using J1 for U3 and J4 for U8. All the remaining address lines are connected directly to VCC, which means that, following the proper pin alignment, EPROMS from 27C32 to 27C512 can be used.

The original Disk II card used biproms 256 bytes in size, so the dumps needs to be properly concatenated before being used in this card. If you wish to use 27C512, you can find pre-made files in the ROMs directory (the files used in these are property of Apple).

• U8 houses the content of the P6 ROM
• U3 houses the content of the P5 ROM

Using the premade files will have the 13-sector image loaded when jumpers on J1 and J4 are not installed, and the 16 sector image loaded when the jumpers are installed.

Note that it is not necessary to swap between the 13 and 16 sector state machine (P6/U8, with J4 jumper): You can leave the jumper set for the 16 sector state machine and just swap the boot prom with J1.

Configuring the address

The address for the I/O ports (DEVICE SELECT) can be changed by jumpering J3.

J3: DEVICE SELECT

C C C C C C C C
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
8 9 A B C D E F
x x x x x x x x
  ^ default

The address for the ROM (I/O SELECT... confusing, I know) can be set by jumpering J2.

J2: I/O SELECT

C C C C C C C C
1 3 5 7 9 B D F
x x x x x x x x
x x x x x x x x
^ default

The defaults are marked on the board.

Ordering the boards

You can order the board for this project at PCBWay and support me or download the gerbers and have them printed wherever you like!!!