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

[Mike Rowen]

I think the "dream" device is any sort of modern R/W storage that you could connect as a floppy. Several folks have proposed building these with microcontrollers, but I'm sure that time is the lacking resource. 

On May 29, 2012, at 2:49 PM, "Paulo Lindoso [gmail]" <paulo.lindoso at gmail.com> wrote:

> That device would be cool.
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> 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".
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> How'd that sound? :)
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>> 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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>> Mike
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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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