At 03:48 PM 1/8/2007, Fred Cisin wrote:
We have been there before.
It seems reasonable that the USB circuitry would then connect to the
SA400 like circuitry of the drive.
BUT,...
USB drives have "fully integrated" circuitry, with one board for both the
USB interface AND the floppy, and do NOT contain a normal drive.
The recent thread titled "Archive your Apple floppies at the W6TRW
swap meet, January 2007" was from Adam Goldman <deviceside at deviceside.com>.
He's making a USB device that will handle 5 1/4 formats and plans to
handle 3 1/2, too. I exchanged a few messages with him and
the answers were interesting. I'll refrain from quoting the
private exchange, though.
- John