[Coco] wikipedia entry on "floppy disk hardware emulator"

[Frank Pittel]

I could see it being usefull to get a device that connects to a floppy
controller and emulates a physical drive. For the most part I use drivewire
and that works well if the software ses the provided API but if they attempt
to access the hardware directly it doesn't work so well. What would be nice
is something like drivewire that connects to a floppy controller as if it
were a floppy drive and then to a computer. That would get us around that
problem.

The Other Frank


On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 02:35:43PM -0400, Arthur Flexser wrote:
> I don't really see the usefulness of this device, inasmuch as it
> cannot read or write to existing floppies.  What's the point?
> 
> Art
> 
> On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Robert Hermanek
> <rhermanek at centurytel.net> wrote:
> > So I was looking at the Wikipedia entry for "floppy disk" for fun, and they have a section about devices that mimic a floppy disk, and it links to this entry.  It's on wikipedia, so pretty safe I think:
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk_hardware_emulator
> >
> > I guess my question is, is this a joke or hoax?  There are no models mentioned, google searches come up pretty blank.  If you look at the photo of the circuit board, it appears the tops of the chips have been blacked out, not sure why they would do that if this were legit.  Anyone aware of a device along the lines that the great and powerful wikipedia says may exist?
> >
> > If so it would be kind of fun to be able to plug it directly into a coco disk controller like you can other 3 1/2 drives...
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