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

[Bill Loguidice]

There are actually several of these devices available, some that work over
USB, others that use SD or other flash cards. The basic premise is that the
vintage computer or device sees the floppy emulator as a regular floppy
drive, but you're not dealing with physical floppy disks. This has obvious
advantages. Proper support for a particular platform is always the x factor
with this stuff, though.

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On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Arthur Flexser <flexser at fiu.edu> 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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