USB Universal Floppy Disk controller

[Cini, Richard]

Actually, I know someone with the capabilities of doing this, but I don't
know if he has the time.

Let me ping him and see what he thinks.



-----Original Message-----
From: cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Jules Richardson
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 8:26 PM
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: USB Universal Floppy Disk controller


On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 19:49 -0500, Barry Watzman wrote:
> What we need so badly is a USB universal floppy disk controller.

Personally I'd rather have parallel or serial or SCSI interfaces, but
each to their own :-)

But yep, agreed. I certainly need *something* that can archive / restore
classic formats to/from modern(-ish!) media.

> Can't anyone design one? It's way over my head

Over mine too really. I'd be able to build one given a schematic, but
probably couldn't design something from scratch. 

Actually, I'd much prefer a schematic anyway for peace of mind as well
as curiousity value.

Given the know-how on the list I'm suprised there hasn't been a
collective effort in the past to build something. 

Maybe the majority of us either:

  1) only specialise in one machine and so do backups in whatever way's
easiest for our own hardware, 
  2) are lucky enough to be blessed with online archives of software so
backups aren't needed
  3) aren't taking any backups at all! :-)

cheers

Jules