I am curious about your comment about "kryoflux going south".
I did not hear about any problems. Could you please elaborate?
I got mine about 2 or 3 years ago and it did everything I needed at the
time, but haven't used it since.
Thanks
Tom
On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 9:19 AM Warner Losh via cctalk
On 4/22/22 18:43, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
> I guess I'll find out. I just ordered one. Shipping is almost as much
> as the device. :-(
>
> Still think I will look into what it would take to access floppies
> from an Arduino. They're fun to play with, too.
As far as I am aware, none
Isn't that what Greaseweasel and similar do? I have a kyroflux that I use
to read floppies on my macbook. It can write as well and understands a ton
of formats. Greaseweasel is more available and supported (I got my
kyroflux
before things went south, so wouldn't recommend others get one these
d
On Fri, 22 Apr 2022, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
As another person with a desire to be able to read/write/create
disks of different sizes and formats I have found this interesting.
So the question, then
How hard would it be to make a floppy disk interface using an Arduino
or even Rasber
On 4/22/22 21:19, Warner Losh wrote:
On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 7:07 PM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote:
As another person with a desire to be able to read/write/create
disks of different sizes and formats I have found this interesting.
So the quest
On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 7:07 PM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> As another person with a desire to be able to read/write/create
> disks of different sizes and formats I have found this interesting.
>
> So the question, then
>
> How hard would it be to make a flop
Indeed! Great investment.
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As another person with a desire to be able to read/write/create
disks of different sizes and formats I have found this interesting.
So the question, then
How hard would it be to make a floppy disk interface using an Arduino
or even RasberryPi? If you could do that the choices of interface
On Fri, 22 Apr 2022, Maciej W. Rozycki via cctalk wrote:
You can of course build a PCI FDD interface around the NEC uPD765 or an
equivalent controller, but you can't make it compatible with existing PC
software, because too much PC specifics has been embedded there around the
8237 DMA controller
I picked one up several years ago for my 029. maybe 25 or 30 bucks.
I also grabbed a couple of the cylinders that were used to put legends
on cards, which were around. Never knew exactly what process used them,
but the look cool.
On 4/22/2022 3:16 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 4/22
On 4/22/22 15:47, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2022, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>
>> I suppose it might be possible to fashion a legacy floppy controller on
>> a PCI card with enough supporting logic to make it compatible with
>> existing software, but I'm not aware of such an effo
On Thu, 21 Apr 2022, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> I suppose it might be possible to fashion a legacy floppy controller on
> a PCI card with enough supporting logic to make it compatible with
> existing software, but I'm not aware of such an effort.
You can of course build a PCI FDD interface
On 4/22/22 14:37, Lee Courtney via cctalk wrote:
>> Works fine. Good Condition.
>
> Doesn't say whether it includes power cord or not?
You'd figure that there would be buckets of these things around. Many
keypunch pools would have several of them for each keypunch, preloaded
with cards for appr
Works fine. Good Condition.
On Fri, 22 Apr 2022, Lee Courtney via cctalk wrote:
Doesn't say whether it includes power cord or not?
😸
Wouldn't matter. There aren't any Windows 10 drivers for its PCI card.
> Works fine. Good Condition.
Doesn't say whether it includes power cord or not?
😸
Lee Courtney
On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 12:41 AM Christian Corti via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2022, Barry Hills wrote:
> > Selling my 026/029 IBM punch card control drum ($150)
>
> Th
On 4/22/22 1:26 PM, Glen Slick via cctalk wrote:
Swearing about it doesn't make it so.
Agreed.
Though swearing about it does speak to how strongly I /thought/ it was
the case.
Clearly I was wrong. It's only been about two decades since I would
have messed with this. Maybe my grey matter
On Fri, Apr 22, 2022 at 11:25 AM Grant Taylor via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I'd swear that I've used a PCI Adaptec card with a floppy controller.
> 2942 comes to mind.
Swearing about it doesn't make it so.
Are there any Adaptec SCSI controllers other than the various flavors
of these models which have
On Fri, Apr 22, 2022, 12:25 PM Grant Taylor via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 4/22/22 11:46 AM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
> > By the time there were PCI Adaptec cards, there was no longer a floppy
> > controller on them that I ever saw. As others have pointed out,
> > though, it
On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 at 19:11, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Back in the 90s, we bought these things by the carton, modified them to
> work with Japanese DOS 2.0 format (PC98) 3.5" floppies, rewrote the
> drivers, added a VxD for Win3.1 compatibility and sold a bunch of them.
> Popular with so
On 4/22/22 12:03 PM, Rob Jarratt via cctalk wrote:
I decided to invest in a Hakko FR-301. It worked almost
immediately. Hours of trying before, I did it in 10 minutes!
Thank you for the feedback and the comparison of without and with it.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
On 4/22/22 11:46 AM, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
By the time there were PCI Adaptec cards, there was no longer a floppy
controller on them that I ever saw. As others have pointed out,
though, it would need special drivers and/or BIOS support because
PCI devices mixed poorly with ISA DMA that
I decided to invest in a Hakko FR-301. It worked almost immediately. Hours of
trying before, I did it in 10 minutes!
Regards
Rob
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On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 7:54 PM Grant Taylor via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 4/21/22 5:47 PM, Charles Dickman via cctalk wrote:
> > Were there ever any floppy controllers for the (parallel) PCI bus?
>
> Didn't some of the Adaptec SCSI cards have a floppy controller on them?
>
> Cou
On 4/22/22 04:44, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
> The company did a range of parallel-port storage drives: CDs, tape
> drives and so on. Most were slow but worked, but the floppy drives
> were quite a good option at the time for things like laptops which
> couldn't accept another drive or controll
On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 at 13:44, Liam Proven wrote:
> 5¼":
> https://www.amazon.com/MICRO-SOLUTION-1-44MB-Backpack-Parallel/dp/B512MS
Oops, sorry, badly-chosen link. Both of those are, of course, 3½
drives. The company *did* also offer 5¼" units, though, as did
others...
https://www.vogons.org
On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 at 01:48, Charles Dickman via cctalk
wrote:
>
> Were there ever any floppy controllers for the (parallel) PCI bus?
Floppy *controllers*, no. Floppy *drives*, yes.
The Backpack range were the most well-known, I'd say.
e.g.
5¼":
https://www.amazon.com/MICRO-SOLUTION-1-44MB-Ba
On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 07:12:07PM -0400, Sean Conner via cctalk wrote:
[...]
> Agree here. I loved the 68K and have fond memories of writing programs in
> it. But while the x86 has been Frankensteined into 64 bits, I don't think
> I can see the 68K ever being a 64-bit architecture. I don't think t
On Thu, 21 Apr 2022, Barry Hills wrote:
Selling my 026/029 IBM punch card control drum ($150)
Thanks, I had a good lough :-D
Christian
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