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

[Paulo Lindoso [gmail]]

Make that two, Robert...

I will be happy if I manage to re-work my own version of toolshed to 
read/write multiple DSK images in a CF and use the SuperIDE as CF reader 
interface,  but right now I am so overworked I shiver to look at code of 
any nature during the weekends... ;)

Cheers,
Paulo.

> Robert Hermanek <mailto:rhermanek at centurytel.net>
> May 29, 2012 5:03 PM
> Oh, so type "floppy emulator" into eBay search and I get four pages of 
> results, some in the $20+ range.  Wonder why google struck out for 
> me... might have to pick one of these up sometime--I agree kind of a 
> toy, and I'm a drivewire junky so really don't need it.  Still kind of 
> neat though that you could probably take coco disk controller, take 
> one of these floppy emulators, perform some kind of combiniation 
> re-pack into a cartridge, can probably steal 5V from coco someplace, 
> and then you'd have coco+catridge system and nothing else needed to be 
> able to plug a USB drive directly into your coco, no DOS patch 
> necessary so 100% compatibility with everything... I'll add this to my 
> list of projects that I'll really never get to.
>
> -Robert
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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:
>
> 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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