20 Oct
2007
20 Oct
'07
11:36 a.m.
On Saturday 20 October 2007 13:00, e.stiebler wrote:
or read from a valuable floppy, I can wait a minute to
transfer it
via V24 which most computers have. (Please don't kill me for this
"most").
I think you mean "RS-232", or more properly, "EIA-232". V.24
comprises
a part of the EIA-232 standard, but is only really a pinout
specification.
Also, if you think that RS-232 is fast enough, you haven't had a real
stack of hundreds of floppies that you needed to sort through and read.
Anyways, if you want to read the floppies in a classic machine that
lacks ethernet, then you probably don't need the external controller to
do it for you. :)
Pat
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