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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