Alternative Hardware Design for Floppy Interface

[Jules Richardson]

Grant Stockly wrote:
> What do you guys think?  The thing has a peripheral expansion header.  
> We could hook a modern floppy chip to that, connectors for different 
> drives, and off we go...

What's the cost like? Is the board made up of separate components (CPU, ROM, 
RAM, USB chip, buffers for I/O, Ethernet chip etc.)?

I'd find Ethernet more useful than USB, and in an ideal world I'd prefer a 
board where the functional areas are segregated (rather than some complex and 
expensive single chip, where if disaster strikes the thing basically needs 
throwing out and replacing as a complete unit)

cheers

Jules