30 Jun
2002
30 Jun
'02
5:39 a.m.
"Peter C. Wallace" wrote:
Actually it seems to me that if you wanted to
create a universal
floppy controller, the whole FDC + bus interface would fit easily in a <$20
FPGA (with maybe some small amount of external SRAM).
Actually, I didn't notice any RAM on the board that was scanned
and put up on the web. But I did notice a little 8-pin chip that
I didn't recognise. A Google search for "UM8326" revealed
this information about a board called "Transcopy":
http://dbz.icequake.net/oldskool/dob/transcopy.html
Is this actually the same hardware?
--
John Honniball
coredump(a)gifford.co.uk