Catweasel opinions, sources of info etc.

[Vintage Computer Festival]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-03-08 at 20:40 -0600, Jim Leonard wrote:
> > Or, you could try a simple parallel cable and Disk2FDI:
> > http://www.oldskool.org/disk2fdi
>
> How does that work? From past discussions on this list, the PC parallel
> port isn't fast enough to sample the bitstream from a floppy drive...

It doesn't work over the parallel port: it uses the actual PC floppy drive
to read GCR disks natively using an incredibly clever trick.  Read the
information in the downloads on how it works.  You can get the trial
version for free, but it requires two drives to work.

-- 

Sellam Ismail                                        Vintage Computer Festival
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
International Man of Intrigue and Danger                http://www.vintage.org

[ Old computing resources for business || Buy/Sell/Trade Vintage Computers   ]
[ and academia at www.VintageTech.com  || at http://marketplace.vintage.org  ]