[Coco] SVD on Ebay

[John Eric]

yeah - i just thought it would be cool - if we had some sort of solid state floppy with removeable storage, one in the pc/mac - one in the coco - error free images - of course coconet looks good too :)




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From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 8, 2009 8:53:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Coco] SVD on Ebay

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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