22 Dec
2003
22 Dec
'03
4:45 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "ben franchuk" <bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, December 22, 2003 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: looking for: Option Board, Trackstar, Turnover Card or similars
There is a Option board on ebay now in mint condition with software if thats
the way he wants to go. I dont see why people go to all the trouble to buy
exotic gear and get it to work when the original equipment is so cheap and
WILL work. Its not like he has 10,000 disks he needs to get data from where
an automated PC setup for reading and dumping the contents to a HD would be
better.
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> Wow. This is truly cool. I'm going to have to play with it as soon as
> some free time presents itself.
>
> If it works as reliably as it seems then this would surely qualify as
the
Hack of the
Year.
So why can't one just get a APPLE II?
Anyhow did not somebody make a pc controler that could read differnent
floppy formats. This was not a PC card but a mother board floppy
controler chip. ( Now not made of course )