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

[Juan Castro]

Emulate the signals of a 179x/279x/whatever in an FPGA and then go to a
memory card/network/whatever for the data?

On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Frank Pittel <fwp at deepthought.com> wrote:

>
> 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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