21 Sep
2014
21 Sep
'14
1:57 p.m.
On 09/21/2014 01:00 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
On Sep 21, 2014, at 11:31 , Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
The gotcha there is that you're on the hook for someone to write the
appropriate software for your format. Or have the KF people opened up
their software completely, so you can roll your own? (I haven't been
paying much attention lately).
--Chuck
I don't understand the need for special
hardware. Any PC capable
of reading/writing FM and MFM should handle it.
That makes sense if you take it for granted that PCs with suitable
floppy controllers are sitting around on the shelf waiting to be
used, which is probably true for many or even most folks here. Some
of us don't generally use PCs, though, and have spent most of our
lives using mostly non-PC hardware. For me, a PC on which to run
ImageDisk is no less special than a KryoFlux or Supercard Pro board,
since I need to buy all of the hardware to build it anyway.