Alternative Hardware Design for Floppy Interface

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Saturday 20 October 2007 13:00, e.stiebler wrote:
> or read from a valuable floppy, I can wait a minute to transfer it
> via V24 which most computers have. (Please don't kill me for this
> "most").

I think you mean "RS-232", or more properly, "EIA-232".  V.24 comprises 
a part of the EIA-232 standard, but is only really a pinout 
specification.

Also, if you think that RS-232 is fast enough, you haven't had a real 
stack of hundreds of floppies that you needed to sort through and read.  

Anyways, if you want to read the floppies in a classic machine that 
lacks ethernet, then you probably don't need the external controller to 
do it for you. :)

Pat
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