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

[Robert Hermanek]

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

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Hermanek" <rhermanek at centurytel.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 1:22 PM
Subject: [Coco] wikipedia entry on "floppy disk hardware emulator"


> 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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