On Sun, 08 Mar 2009 15:02:05 -0500, John Foust wrote: Ok I am confused ~ The Floppy connector does it connect to a floppy drive or a computer as if it was a floppy ? Does a Flash drive plug into the USB slot and act like a floppy ? or is this a USB device

At 04:28 PM 3/8/2009, Bob Bradlee wrote: Look at the pictures. Yes, the card acts like a 3 1/2" floppy at the electrical level. There's just a ribbon going to the classic machine and a USB to the contemporary PC where it reads/writes to a virtual disk image in a file. - John

On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Erik Baigar <erik at baigar.de> wrote: I talked to the developers about buying one. They want about 90euros + 4euros for paypal. They currently have one left from the latest batch. This is for the version that connects to a PC through the USB cable. For the one that takes an SD card and has the LCD display, it's still in development. He wasn't sure when it would be ready. brian

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Chuck Guzis wrote: Yes, that is my fear, too! My intended use for this would be in older logic analyzer and oscilloscope from HP. So I asked them whether it will support e.g. LIF format. No answer yet...

On 9 Mar 2009 at 13:55, Fred Cisin wrote: Could be, I don't remember, probably lost among the "I want to copy Victor 9000/Apple/Lanier/... diskettes on my PC" inquiries. Cheers, Chuck

On 9 Mar 2009 at 16:34, Fred Cisin wrote: You give them too much credit! More like "I know it can be done because it takes the same kind of diskettes as my PC". You know, Them: "I need to copy this floppy disk. "Me: "What kind of diskette is it?" Them: "Double sided, double density is what the label says." Me: "Sigh... --Chuck

On Mar 9, 2009, at 6:17 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: Technically correct, yet profoundly unhelpful. I like it. ok bear

r.stricklin wrote: Like the old joke.... Microsoft Helicopter Joke Author Unknown WHERE AM I? A helicopter was flying around above Seattle yesterday when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's electronic navigation and communication equipment. Due to the clouds and haze the pilot could not determine his position or course to steer to the airport. The pilot saw a tall building, flew toward it, circled, drew a handwritten sign and held it in the helicopter's window. The sign said "WHERE AM I ?" in large letters. People in the tall building quickly responded to the aircraft, drew a large sign and held it in a building window. Their sign said, "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER." The pilot smiled, waved, looked at his map and determine the course to steer to SEATAC (Seattle/Tacoma) airport and landed safely. After they were on the ground, the co-pilot asked the pilot how the "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER" sign helped determine their position. The pilot responded, "I knew that had to be the MICROSOFT building because they gave me a technically correct but completely useless answer." :) -- Phil. classiccmp at philpem.me.uk http://www.philpem.me.uk/

Them: "That's what the label says." Them: "IBM PC Single sided single density." Them: "PDP-11 OS/2"

Since when have Victor 9000 disks been '300 rpm' or any constant speed for that matter -tony

On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Chuck Guzis wrote: I got some information now and they say "it accepts DD and HD disks selectable by jumper" - no specification whether MFM or hard/soft- sectored. But I strongly assume it is PC-style only since they say, that the CF card holds individual files (one per image) which are a binary representation of the disk content and thus are either 2x80x18x512 byte in length for HD images. So no luck with this one for other vintage equipment. I am still waiting for a quotation and I asked about detection of "disk change" as required for a drive to work with HP measurement equipment. Should be available for purchase according to the company. Erik.