6 Dec
2006
6 Dec
'06
12:42 p.m.
On 6 Dec 2006 at 15:23, Roger Merchberger wrote:
With all this talk of "multiple floppies means
multiple gizmos" I was
internally translating that to "microcomputer systems" as I'd not really
seen many specialty machines that took multiple floppies like that... ;-)
There are still boatloads of old CNC machinery out there in
productive use. Consider that the purchase price was often in 6
figures and that there's basically nothing wrong with the part that's
attached to the iron casting (i.e., the business end of the tool).
Tool vendors are most likely to encourage you to purchase a whole new
machine than upgrade parts of it.
You're looking for something that plugs straight
into the floppy cable to
do it's "dirty work." If that's the case, *if* (yea, big if) the device
supports multiple drives on the same cable, one could monitor the
DriveSelect lines and automagically support multiple floppies from a single
device... [[ "swapping" floppies would still need some form of external
interface, methinks... ]]
That's what I was thinking of, all right.
Cheers,
Chuck