20 Jan
2023
20 Jan
'23
10:54 p.m.
On Fri, 20 Jan 2023, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
It's not cheap but it works, apparently.
https://shop.deviceside.com/prod/FC5025
It's read-only but it handles, in theory, DS/DD 40 track, DS/DD 80
track, and DS/HD 80 track.
It attaches to a PC floppy drive, so if a PC floppy controller can't
read the format without hardware assistance, this won't either.
So, there is a short (14 formats), but impressive, list of formats that
it can image,
Their file access is referred to as "Browse"
and a VERY short (6 formats), but also impressive, list of formats that it
can "browse" (copy files).
The format list is as of March 2013 :-(
IFF they were still actively supporting it, (not likely if they haven't
added any formats in a decade) it would be trivial for them
to add hundreds of other CP/M formats, Apple CP/M, Apple Pascal/P-system,
etc.