28 Nov
2005
28 Nov
'05
11:21 p.m.
On 11/28/05, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
To put a reverse twist on this, has anyone ever used
two floppy controllers
to transfer data between two systems? I know it'd take a little extra
hardware (something has to provide address headers outside of a format
operation), but it should still be quite possible to do so.
There was a product for the Amiga that did this, but the Amiga's FDC
is really just a combination of a couple of portions of a couple of
custom chips. The data transfer portion is a huge shift register that
lives on the sound chip (Paula).
Dunno how much work it would be to make something like that for a WD
FDC-based machine, like a PeeCee.
-ethan