11 May
2009
11 May
'09
5:29 a.m.
Andrew Lynch wrote:
Hi! I sent this message earlier but it seems to have
gotten drowned in all
the unpleasantness.
Sometimes, this list is weird.
Hopefully we can move on to something more
constructive. If anyone would like to discuss disk archiving legacy formats
with an existing low cost home brew Z80 CP/M SBC and Disk IO board I think
the N8VEM project would make a great starting point.
I was wondering about it too, and waiting for you to come up ;-)
Anyway, I hope you don't mind if I post the links to two pictures which
hopefully show how it could work:
a.) the cpu board http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/f/IMG_5762.jpg
b.) the fdc http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/f/IMG_8632.JPG
So, if you use a right angled power-connector on the cpu, you could
probably just stack those two board on top of each other, without the
need of the bus backplane.
My thoughts to all of this:
1.) I don't care about the sd-flash, Not sure if it really helps. After
all, we still talk about floppies, so a decent V24 should be good enough
to send /receive data from a floppy.
2.) The board is missing the 8" floppy connector, which is bad. Would
make it easier to get the people playing with it. I know, you can wire
it up easily, but you probably like to get the software people on board
too ?
;-)
Cheers
STANDARD DISCLAIMER : (SORRY, I'M NOT INVOLVED IN THIS PROJECT AT ALL,
BUT I'M WATCHING IT FOR A WHILE. LIKED TO PLAY WITH CP/M AND Z80 BEFORE)
