8 Apr
2006
8 Apr
'06
7:59 p.m.
there is also the daynafile
http://users.eastlink.ca/~pspencer/mac/dayna/dayna.html
8 Apr
8 Apr
8:07 p.m.
On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Al Kossow wrote:
there is also the daynafile
http://users.eastlink.ca/~pspencer/mac/dayna/dayna.html
On Sat, 8 Apr 2006, Fred Cisin wrote:
Howzbout:
take a small PC, with either USB or SCSI, with appropriate drives, and use
the PC itself as a slave device controller.
I don't recall the name of it, but there was a small PC with a SCSI port
and a 5.25" drive, using the PC as a slave device controller, that was
MARKETED as a "DRIVE" that could "let Macs read PC and CP/M
diskettes".
By THAT definition, I've seen lots of RS232 floppy drives :-)
Thanks, I think that that was the one
5:01 p.m.
> By THAT definition, I've seen lots of RS232
floppy drives :-)
There was a thing called a 'Drive 95' (I think from Corvalis Micro
Technologies, but I might have misrememebred that part). It wa a box
contain ing a 3.5" drive and a microntorller board with an RS232 port.
Firmaware on the microntroller made it acts as a kermit server. It was
designed for use with the HP95LX (hence the name), which had kermit in ROM.
-tony
9 Apr
9 Apr
6:17 p.m.
There was a thing called a 'Drive 95' (I think
from Corvalis Micro
Technologies, but I might have misrememebred that part). It wa a box
contain ing a 3.5" drive and a microntorller board with an RS232 port.
Firmaware on the microntroller made it acts as a kermit server. It was
designed for use with the HP95LX (hence the name), which had kermit in ROM.
Fascinating! I'd love one of those. *looks at two 95LXes beside him on the
workbench*
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10 Apr
10 Apr
3 p.m.
There was a thing called a 'Drive 95' (I
think from Corvalis Micro
Technologies, but I might have misrememebred that part). It wa a box
contain ing a 3.5" drive and a microntorller board with an RS232 port.
Firmaware on the microntroller made it acts as a kermit server. It was
designed for use with the HP95LX (hence the name), which had kermit in ROM.
Fascinating! I'd love one of those. *looks at two 95LXes beside him on the
workbench* 
8 Apr
8 Apr
9:02 p.m.
At the expense of sounding like an idiot, why not just buy/steal/beg a Teac
FD-235HS and use the controller board from it to connect to a
garden-variety 5.25" floppy?
http://www.teac.com/DSPD/support/floppy_drives/id_hs_models.htm
Cheers,
Chuck
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