[Coco] usb thumb drive to floppy emulator

[Robert Hermanek]

Afraid answer isn't good.  Yes I tried one just because I had one. These 
are designed for PC formats, such as 720K and 1.44M, so 80 tracks, 9 or 
18 sectors.  I figured hey, it might work, since a coco expects only 35 
tracks and 18 sectors.  But the failure point seems to be:  a coco 
expects 256 byte sectors, and this thing is hard-wired to 512 byte 
sectors, so... never got it to work.

(real slick on an old 486 PC I had though :)

-RobertH

On 3/26/2014 1:14 PM, xnaron wrote:
> This looks pretty interesting.  It emulates a floppy drive and stores the
> data on a usb drive.  You make thousands of partitions for each floppy on
> the usb.  Then you select the partition number on the front of the device
> to "load" it into the drive.  It's only $22.  Has anyone ever tried one
> with a coco?
>
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/SFR1M44-U100-USB-Floppy-Drive-Emulator-for-Industrial-Control-Equipment-w-1-44MB-/331159028746?pt=US_Floppy_Zip_Jaz_Drives&hash=item4d1a9dc40a
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