CT60e: The infamous floppy power cable - not needed anymore?

[mikro]

Hi, today I received my CT60e. The most interesting change to the CT60 I can see is the lack of the floppy power connector which used to serve as an output for the rest of the motherboard (and was the source of destruction of your Falcon if you plugged it in opposite direction).

The connector is not there anymore (only a square section named "F030 booster' without any ICs and a PCB looking similar to the floppy power pins) so I'm wondering, how is this supposed to work then? If I recall correctly, if you didn't connect the floppy power cable, you had muted DMA sound or something like that.

[mikro]

OK, now that I actually tried to install the CT60e I see that the original PSU connector is used as well. :D No more mystery and congratulations to Willy for such elegant idea.

[christos]

As someone who suffered from this, I can only say... this is great. I wish the ct63 was like that, I would still have had a falcon.

[mikro]

Yeah, a friend of mine in Slovakia fried his Falcon this way, too.

If you think about it -- all that was needed was a simple floppy power connector instead of those barebone pins. Sigh.

[christos]

Yes, and all it takes is a moment of carelessness to fry your machine.