7 Dec
2006
7 Dec
'06
8:52 a.m.
On 7 Dec 2006 at 10:11, Jay West wrote:
I haven't been following this thread too
closely... but if it's going to
be a machine independent storage device, why is there talk about it being
a replacement for a floppy drive? Most of the machines in my collection
didn't have floppy drives available. There was also talk of holding the
flux transitions in a memory buffer. Is that possible on a machine with
only say... 8K of core when you consider the additional software that must
be present in the machine to interface?
I was the one who was talking about a floppy replacement, only
because the topic dovetailed nicely with something I'm currently
"back of envelope-ing".
Said floppy replacement would (within limits) not give a whit what
the host machine was or its level of intelligence. It would simply
be a plug-in replacement for a standard floppy and have all the
smarts needed for that purpose self-contained.
All of the other solutions that I'm reading about on this thread
appear to be less-than-transparent replacements for existing devices
in that they require some kind of software on the host system. The
floppy drive replacement would not--you'd merely plug it in as a
replacement floppy.
If you're looking for a serial-interface (RS232/422/485) FC board,
I've already posted a link to a commerical one that retails for under
$70 and supports up to 4GB cards.
Cheers,
Chuck