18 Oct
2006
18 Oct
'06
9:21 p.m.
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006, Barry Watzman wrote:
Don't know if any of you saw this, but a
5.25" floppy disk drive just went
for $192 on E-Bay tonight (Wed., 10/18).
It was a "backpack" external parallel port drive, New Old Stock in Box,
still shrink wrapped.
I am strongly of the opinion that there is a far bigger market than is
generally perceived for a USB floppy disk controller that will support 5.25"
and even 8" drives, if only someone would develop the product.
I agree. Perhaps one can start with one of the open-source FPGA
implementations of floppy controllers known to support 5.25" and 3.5"
drives. Couple that with (mumble)'s 8" converter gizmo. Add to that a
general-purpose USB controller chip.
--
David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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