Machine Independent Storage Idea...

I haven't been following this thread too closely... but if it's going to be a machine independent storage device, why is there talk about it being a replacement for a floppy drive? Most of the machines in my collection didn't have floppy drives available. There was also talk of holding the flux transitions in a memory buffer. Is that possible on a machine with only say... 8K of core when you consider the additional software that must be present in the machine to interface? I would think the best interface to a host is serial (from a common denominator standpoint), and then provide different software on each host to make it appear as a drive of the chosen type. In other words, let the same device that can act as an RL02 on an DEC 11/20 also act as a 7900A on an HP 2100. I'd sure be willing to attempt finding time to write the HP specific end :) Jay West