[Coco] Its Alive!

[Jens]

Am 10.10.2013 15:48, schrieb billg999 at cs.uofs.edu:
>> 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.

Yes, that's right.

One of the goals to get with a emulated Floppy controller would be, that you 
don't need to "bootstrap" and you need no server.

> (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.)

If you have a disk controller, than you can better use a HxC Floppy Drive:

http://lotharek.pl/category.php?kid=7


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Mfg.

Jens Diemer


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