6 Dec
2006
6 Dec
'06
12:23 p.m.
Rumor has it that Chuck Guzis may have mentioned these words:
On 6 Dec 2006 at 14:19, Roger Merchberger wrote:
Ah, OK. Now I get yer drift...
With all this talk of "multiple floppies means multiple gizmos" I was
internally translating that to "microcomputer systems" as I'd not really
seen many specialty machines that took multiple floppies like that... ;-)
You're looking for something that plugs straight into the floppy cable to
do it's "dirty work." If that's the case, *if* (yea, big if) the device
supports multiple drives on the same cable, one could monitor the
DriveSelect lines and automagically support multiple floppies from a single
device... [[ "swapping" floppies would still need some form of external
interface, methinks... ]]
Don't mind me - I lost my village long ago. ;-)
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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RGBDos for the CoCo makes it quite a bit easier -
it patches the onboard
RSDOS to allow up to 256 emulated floppies - there's a command that allows
some real floppies in the mix as well (say, drives 0 and 1 are real, then
2-255 are emulated on the CF card).
That's nice if'n you know what platform you're aiming at. But a
general-purpose floppy emulator probably doesn't have that luxury. I
mean, what would you do for say, a Ioline fabric cutter or
Meistergram embroidery machine? (That's where you'll find a lot of
floppies still in use).