10 May
2009
10 May
'09
8:52 p.m.
On 10 May 2009 at 23:21, Andrew Lynch wrote:
Hi! I sent this message earlier but it seems to have
gotten drowned
in all the unpleasantness. Hopefully we can move on to something more
constructive. If anyone would like to discuss disk archiving legacy
formats with an existing low cost home brew Z80 CP/M SBC and Disk IO
board I think the N8VEM project would make a great starting point.
It does everything described by Jules and is common enough now to have
a decent support base. There are at least one hundred N8VEM SBC
owners so that might be helpful in using it to archive disks. It uses
a standard Intel 8272/NEC 765A FDC with some extensions for use with
formats other than the usual 5.25"/3.5" DSDD/DSHD. Especially when
paired with an IDE CF adapter I think it would be a very useful tool.
By "extensions" what do you mean, Andrew? Will it archive Victor
9000 diskettes?
--Chuck