PC/Apple/etc. Cards Worth Keeping/Storing

Dwight K. Elvey dwight.elvey at amd.com
Thu Apr 28 11:24:43 CDT 2005


>From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com>
>
>Check what FDC chip and or/ additional circuitry is used on the floppy
>controllers; boards that can handle FM ("Single Density") are handy.
>
>Any board that has discrete ICs is a lot more fun to hack than one with
>VLSI.
>If you are new to hardware, look at Bruce Eckel's book on parallel
>port interfacing.
>
Hi
 When I wanted to add a floppy disk to my NC4000 processor
board, I just patched in an old XT floppy controller board.
It worked just fine once I realized that the NC4000 could
write to it faster than it was ready to respond.
Dwight




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