Interest in a DiscFerret?

[alan at alanlee.org]

I had the bug to do something similar.. then I found SuperCard Pro.  
It's closed hardware but the USB protocol is fully documented.  Because 
if that, it's almost a perfect commodity turn-key hardware bridge to raw 
flux-level transitions - in or out.  It's $100 and in-stock.  One could 
always build custom hardware, but you'd wind up with something very 
similar in hardware and protocol design.  What's your time worth?

The heavy lift is always in software.  There is an open-source Amiga 
disk image utility package that has turned into something more 
flux-level generic called Keirf Utilities.  And the built-in software is 
also descent.  But since the USB protocol is documented, the hardware 
capabilities can be extended by anyone.

-Alan


On 2019-01-09 15:12, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote:
> On 1/9/19 12:05 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen via cctalk wrote:
>> Less finished (ok, unfinished) project
> 
> Just what the world needs, more half-baked floppy reading hardware
> and no software, just like the stupid thing on hackaday.
> 
> https://hackaday.com/2019/01/08/preserving-floppy-disks-via-logic-analyser/
> 
> Universal joy through the reinvention of the wheel (badly)