[Coco] SVD on Ebay

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu Jan 8 21:53:19 EST 2009


On Thursday 08 January 2009, John Eric wrote:
>Yes, I had noticed this guys auctions and almost considered buying one, but
> I got to thinking that the SVD circuitry could be modified so as to see
> some sort of flash card as a floppy, and so that's what I have been
> thinking of emailing the svd designer to ask if he has considered. I know
> we can use CF cards as hard drives with Mark M's Interface, but I think it
> would be neat to have a CF that looked to a floppy controller as if it were
> a floppy drive. Then plain old unmodified disk basic could handle it.
>
Have you considered that the smallest CF card one can buy today (256 megs) 
will hold about 300 720k dsdd floppy images?  One would have to have some 
sort of a selector switch on it to select the image to be accessed.

OTOH, it would seem to be a somewhat smaller solution to storing a few hundred 
floppies

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