[Coco] Its Alive!

[Charlie Pelosi]

Hi Bill. I haven't been following the thread, but concerning floppy 
emulators.
Has anyone taken a look at these? http://www.lotharek.pl/category.php?kid=7
I have used Lotharek's hardware with my ST computers and his work is 
excellent.
I hear many great things about his floppy emulators.


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From: <billg999 at cs.uofs.edu>
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2013 9:48 AM
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Subject: Re: [Coco] Its Alive!

>> Am 10.10.2013 14:55, schrieb Brett Gordon:
>>> Idea:  RPi as a DW server and keyboard replacement.  I think the RPi has
>>> enough GPIO pins.. too bad they're 3.3 volts rather than 5 vDC
>>
>> And there is the idea to emulate a floppy drive with a Raspberry Pi, see:
>>
>> http://archive.worldofdragon.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=4251
>>
>
> Isn't the functionality you get with DriveWire?  Not a physical
> disk emulator, but a logical disk emulator.  Seems like what they
> are discussing would just be a lot of work to accomplish the same
> thing.
> (Don't get em wrong, I am looking at finding some hardware, and the
> Pi was one option I looked at, that could emulate old disk hardware
> for the PDP-11 and VAX, like RX 8" floppies which do not use the
> standard 8" interface and RL02 which is another totally different
> beast.  Once I get more familiar with it I am also thinking of
> trying to do a DriveWire client for them.)
>
> bill
>
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