[Coco] Regarding a cheap floppy emulator

[Chris Osborn]

I wrote software to use my Raspberry Pi as a disk drive for the Commodore 64, and I use it completely headless. There's no monitor or keyboard connected (except when things go terribly terribly wrong). I have wifi on it so I don't even need to plug in ethernet. I just ssh into it when I need to do things. I'm also able to use it for a disk drive for the Atari 800 in the same way.

I plan to eventually box it up and put it in a case about the size of a disk drive. Right now I just have it mounted to a piece of plywood. There's an aluminum bracket that I mounted the power switch and some D-sub connectors to for I/O. I'm working on making it into a peripheral that can do services for all of my retro computers.

On Sep 9, 2013, at 6:15 PM, Christopher Smith wrote:

> I might do the Raspberry Pi if I can cobble together an interface that doesn't require me to have a completely separate keyboard and display for it.  Honestly, I don't want a separate standalone computer system for disk service.  I'd like the disk device to be a dedicated peripheral with the space footprint appropriate for such.  Yes, drivewire should be easy.  I do have the cables, I have a bunch of old machines that would probably run it, and I intend to at least use it for moving data back and forth, but I'd much prefer that the computer had its own storage.