PCI floppy controller

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 at 01:48, Charles Dickman via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> Were there ever any floppy controllers for the (parallel) PCI bus?

Floppy *controllers*, no. Floppy *drives*, yes.

The Backpack range were the most well-known, I'd say.

e.g.

5¼":
https://www.amazon.com/MICRO-SOLUTION-1-44MB-Backpack-Parallel/dp/B0000512MS

3½":
https://www.ebay.com/itm/384823809302

The company did a range of parallel-port storage drives: CDs, tape
drives and so on. Most were slow but worked, but the floppy drives
were quite a good option at the time for things like laptops which
couldn't accept another drive or controller, or for adding drives
unsupported by the built-in controller. I used them for emergency
backups, data transfer, data recovery and so on.


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