Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

Jules Richardson julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Aug 12 05:34:41 CDT 2004


On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 00:13, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
> >From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com>
> >
> >truly demented idea:
> >build a hardware device that can read the image file, connects
> >via 34 or 50 pin cable to an FDC, and that produces pulses
> >that look like disk data to the FDC.
> >
> Hi
>  It has already been done. I can look up the web page if you like.
> Dwight

yes, please :-) 

I remember asking about this a while back, specifically wondering if a
PC parallel port was fast enough to drive it (not without buffering at
some sort of level, it seemed)

I wouldn't mind seeing what someone else has come up with.

cheers

Jules




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