Looking for an 8 bit FDC...

On 10/25/2005 at 2:31 PM Joe R. wrote: The old Compaticard I and II used a non-standard way of changing density, so I'd stay away from these. The CC IV wasn't that different (as far as the basic hardware) from many, many other "use high-density drives on your XT" boards. FWIW, unless you need the DIP switches and absolute reconfigurability, there are many old alternate-source cards that will work just fine. Most will at least support 37x as an alternate port. The OmniBridge and WD Fox 1002A come to mind as branded products; there were many other "white box" controllers that did just as well. At one point, Don Maslin and I tried to compile an exhaustive list, but when you started including floppy+hard disk controllers, there were just too many. (e.g., the DTC 3280 SCSI controller has a very nice floppy controller on it). Some were better in handling odd formats than any of the CC's. Up until last year, we had a pile of NOS CC IV's. I could not believe that people were willing to pay $150 for a fairly garden-variety ISA card, but we sold them out very quickly at that price. Cheers, Chuck