Alternative Hardware Design for Floppy Interface
Chuck Guzis
cclist at sydex.com
Sat Oct 20 14:18:18 CDT 2007
On 20 Oct 2007 at 12:32, Doc Shipley wrote:
> Chuck Guzis wrote:
> >
> > An old PC with some ISA slots (free, usually) and a few ISA prototype
> > boards (about $20 or so the each) would seem to satisfy the basic
> > need pretty handily, wouldn't it? Easy to program, free tools, etc.
> >
> > Or am I missing something important here?
>
> "small"? :)
Oh, golly the casemodders have been fooling around with small-
footprint mobos for years.
And there's always PC104, no? Basically ISA--and a variety of
processors (yes, even x86) are available with that bus, as well as
prototyping cards.
Cheers,
Chuck
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