7 Sep
2000
7 Sep
'00
7:06 p.m.
From: Bill Sudbrink <bills(a)adrenaline.com
Hopefully, in the next week or two, I'm going to
be
getting a SOL. In anticipation of this, I'm wondering
what floppy interfaces one might expect to find in
a SOL. The one I'm getting does not have a floppy card
Most likely a Northstar* MDS, Helios and maybe Icom FDOS
there are toehrs but those were "of era".
in it. Looking around, I see that some people have
NorthStars in theirs. I have a spare N* floppy controller,
but I'd rather not go this route as the hard sectored
media is difficult to find. I'll have to inventory my
S-100 cards... I know I have a couple of Cromemcos 4FDC
and 16FDC cards. Would someone have put one of these in
a SOL? I'm not asking if it can be made to work. I'm
trying to get a sense of whether it's appropriate or if
it would be like putting a SoundBlaster32 with 16 Megs
of memory in an original 6MHz PC-AT with a 512K
motherboard.
Keep in mind a SOL is 2mhz 8080 and without a DMA
based FDC 8" double density is not easily done. It will
do 5.25 double density however.
Allison