22 Sep
2008
22 Sep
'08
2:19 p.m.
Eric Smith wrote:
The ttl implmetation I last used was synthetic PLL. Takes three TTL one
being
a bipolar prom (or any 25ns prom).
I still have (at least 40) systems that can read and write floppies. I
will not start a new system with floppy and llikely new programs will be
either on line (saerial down load) or on media thaats compatable with an
existing system. If incompatable
then its either a coding issue for a differrnt format but still within
exisiting
softector capability (1771, 1783, 765) or its oddball enough to be
likely some hardsector format I don't have. The trouble maker know is
Intel DD 8" (m2FM)
as there are no chips for that and it is softsector.
Allison
Me I gave up on floppies as even at 1.44Mb they
are slow and small.
IDE of CF offer more space and less interface headches.
So when you find a piece of old software on an floppy disk, how
exactly are you going to shove that into your CF reader?
Eric