[Coco] wikipedia entry on "floppy disk hardware emulator"

[Juan Castro]

I just sent them an e-mail and this is what they replied: Emphasis mine.

Hi, the list is only a collection of examples. It's not a support list, as
EMUFDD is universal.

Obviously EMUFDD perfectly supports also the TRS-80.

The reason because you didn't find TRS-80 on the examples list is because
EMUFDD is a professional product with a "professional" price. We usually
solve problems and provide all-inclusive assistance on industrial machinery
that is worth more than 10.000$

* Our prices are not compatible with hobby usage.*

You should try to use this hobby emulator and hope they will give you some
kind of support, I personally don't know them =>
http://www.thesvd.com/SVD/index.php

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Michael Furman <n6il at ocs.net> wrote:

> Looks like it's a real commercial product called a EMUFDD.
>
> http://embeddedsw.net/EMUFDD_Floppy_Hardware_Emulator_Home.html
>
> As mentioned in the documentation, it really is designed to replace any
> 3.5" floppy drive as a plug in, and can load an image off the USB stick
> into internal flash.
>
> Think about... Music synthesizers, keyboards, drum machines, logic
> analyzers, oscilloscopes, data recorders, industrial process machines, cnc,
> mill, lathe, internet routers, telephone/PBX switches... Etc.  Many of
> these types of devices probably still had floppy drives up until the mid
> 2000's as USB became more widely prevalent and serial ports started
> disappearing.  Some of these machines are big and expensive, and still get
> the job done after 10-15-20 years of service.  If you can't get replacement
> floppy drives, what do you do with them?  How do you keep them running if
> they already have a built in floppy controller? Expect to boot off that
> broken floppy drive? We ordered this part 10 years ago, can you give us
> another 50 of them to replace ones that have broken? Yeah you have the CNC
> program but no way to get it into the machine...
>
> For us retro computer people we can move along with new methods,
> technologies, toys like SuperIDE, Drivewire, drivePacks etc. They all solve
> this problem in one way or another and help us keep interested and excited
> in our hobby.  But for some commercial applications technology doesn't
> change that fast and it's just better to buy a $200 floppy emulator than a
> new CNC.
>
>
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> Michael R. Furman
> Email: n6il at ocs.net
> Phone: +1 (408) 480-5865
>
> On May 29, 2012, at 11:22 AM, "Robert Hermanek" <rhermanek at centurytel.net>
> wrote:
>
> > So I was looking at the Wikipedia entry for "floppy disk" for fun, and
> they have a section about devices that mimic a floppy disk, and it links to
> this entry.  It's on wikipedia, so pretty safe I think:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk_hardware_emulator
> >
> > I guess my question is, is this a joke or hoax?  There are no models
> mentioned, google searches come up pretty blank.  If you look at the photo
> of the circuit board, it appears the tops of the chips have been blacked
> out, not sure why they would do that if this were legit.  Anyone aware of a
> device along the lines that the great and powerful wikipedia says may exist?
> >
> > If so it would be kind of fun to be able to plug it directly into a coco
> disk controller like you can other 3 1/2 drives...
> >
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