Technics KN2000 support
Erriez opened this issue · 9 comments
I've a full functional Technics KN2000 keyboard from 1993 and I'm interested in this floppy emulator hardware/software project. The original built-in floppy drive supports 720kB floppy's only with FAT filesystem.
Here is the disk controller schematic with pin-out:
Any suggestion if this will work with a Gotek Floppy Emulator met Rotary Encoder or other emulator and how to proceed?
Related links with information:
First you'll need an adapter from 34 pin IDC on the Gotek to the 24 pin probably FFC here. Likely exists as I think some other musical instruments use this 24 pin interface. After that you will need disk images too.
I received an answer from gotek.nl: The pin-out is different as you confirmed (thanks @keirf). The Gotek part should not be a problem, but the challenge is the dimensions to physically fit into the keyboard. I've added related links in the description of this issue.
So it looks like gotek.nl can sort you out, from the link you added?
Not really, because they don't have a KN2000 device to test it. So I'm at my own and is a risk as I currently have a working floppy-drive.
Do they have the physical adapter available?
A physical adapter is not available due to the low number of KN2000 requests. According to https://gotek.nl/technics-kn2000/:
There are also (apparently) adapters available for connecting a gotek floppy drive to a
technics KN2000 keyboard, which do this conversion without tinkering and soldering.
Where and if these are still available is not known to me !
I see. Without such an adapter you are stuck and Gotek cannot be used with this keyboard.
Looking for this adapter:
There's a good UK seller who sells a "plug and play" package including Gotek, adapter, and USB drive. The current listing for KN 2000: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/134022605591
Reasonable prices for "turnkey", and very friendly, so if you want any pre-sales advice I suggest dropping them a line.