10 Jun
2004
10 Jun
'04
5:55 p.m.
On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
Not sure if such as a PC parallel port is fast enough
to cope with the
data rate of a floppy drive and leave enough time for the CPU to do the
processing though... but that'd be nice; little more than a cable and a
bit of glue logic hooked up to a parallel port that could be quickly
swapped between machines.
MicroSolutions (DeKalb IL) in their "BackPack" line, made parallel port
floppy drives. I have a 2.8M 3.5" from them, but they also made a lot of
other models.