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

[Paulo Lindoso [gmail]]

That device would be cool.

Even cooler if one could connect it to Cloud9's SuperIDE and it would 
identify the USB stick as a "collection" of floppies mapped to 0, 1,..., 
"n".

How'd that sound? :)



> Mike Craig <mailto:mdcmike at sbcglobal.net>
> May 29, 2012 3:46 PM
> Robert Hermanek <rhermanek at ...> writes:
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> Anyone aware of a device along the lines that the great and
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> Actually there is such a device, but it looks nothing like that. You 
> can find it
> here: http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html
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> Robert Hermanek <mailto:rhermanek at centurytel.net>
> May 29, 2012 3:22 PM
> 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:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk_hardware_emulator
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> 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?
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> 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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