speaking of 3.5" floppies, is 720K R.I.P.?

[Chuck Guzis]

On 2 Feb 2009 at 7:13, dwight elvey wrote:

>  I'd given up on finding ones with the /READY signal.
> I needed one to add double sided to my Canon Cat. It
> had a Canon with a weird 20 pin cable that I just recently
> figured out the wiring. I made a circuit with three ttl
> chips to recreate the /READY that works well enough.
>  I had to make a cable translator anyway so I had
> a piece of proto board to add the chips on.

I've done the same here with an 8-pin PIC (the advantage is that 
there are no discrete timing components).  The same could probably be 
done with one of the 6-pin PICs.  But finding drives with a native 
READY signal is better.

Cheers,
Chuck