Re: ZoomFloppy - formatting a disk in a 2031 disk drive

From: Jim Brain <brain_at_jbrain.com>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 11:49:41 -0500
Message-ID: <2d87db9f-dd2d-63ad-e51c-33d5230bf23e@jbrain.com>
On 5/11/2018 7:25 AM, Mia Magnusson wrote:
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> Btw in my fantasy world of feature creep, the ideal device would be a
> combined "VIC-Switch 2.0", thee IEEE equalient "MBS-100" and interfaces
> both way between IEEE 488 and the serial bus. Preferable combined with
> letting the serial-IEEE interface hardware/software keep track of
> prefered configuration for each computer, i.e. talk with the attached
> devices and change their device ID and/or auto translate device
> number. :)
If you do not mind, I am going to steal this idea.

I have, on the bench, a completely breadboarded VIC-Switch (I reverse 
engineered the HANDIC one long ago and then recreated it with a small 
AVR to run the timings and the logic to select a computer to drive 
mapping.  It stalled because cost reasons dictated I I use a CPLD to 
handle things related to burst mode, which I wanted to support. I think 
your idea would be a nice addition to the current project.

Jim
Received on 2018-05-11 19:01:09

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