P112 Floppy Controller

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Sat Apr 23 15:12:20 CDT 2022


On Sat, 23 Apr 2022, Craig Ruff via cctech wrote:
> The P112's floppy controller is the one in the SMSC FDC37C665IR SuperIO 
> chip. The data sheet states it is a 2.88 MB "Licensed CMOS 765B Floppy 
> Disk Controller" and claims 100% IBM compatibility (for what that's 
> worth).

2.8M (it is not "2.88" unless MB is 1024,000) means that it includes a 
1000K data transfer rate

765B means essentially the same FDC as PC (NEC 765 based)

Does it also support FM?   125K data transfer rate (TRS80, Early Osborne)


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