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By Dobberz90 Fri Feb 08, 2019 4:37 am
I recently bought a MPC 2000xl. It came with a 100mb zip drive. I want to swap it out and install the floppy disk drive. I can't afford the CF reader right now. I'm having a hard time hooking everything up, mostly the wiring. I tried for like 2 hours and gave up, Im not good with this computer stuff lol. Even though it's 2019, someone should make a video installing floppy drives into the MPC 2000xl lol. I'll appreciate the help or recommendations.
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By richie Fri Feb 08, 2019 6:50 am
Could you explain what you found difficult? I mean all you would literally do is swap the zip drive ribbon connector for a floppy one, and connect the power back up. I'm a bit confused what you are finding difficult?

Secondly, can you afford $5.49?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/CF-Card-Compac ... 1829250366

Put that in your MPC 2000XL. Put some electrical tape on the bottom side of it so that it doesn't short anything out and you're good.
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By JUKE 179r Thu Jan 16, 2020 3:37 am
If you are talking about the different power connectors being difficult you can get a 4 Pin male molex power to 4 pin female floppy drive power connector.
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Last bumped by Dobberz90 on Thu Jan 16, 2020 3:37 am.