Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!qucdn!leek
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Saturday, 30 Mar 1991 09:40:12 EST
From: <LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Message-ID: <91089.094012LEEK@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Ideas for Super Paula
References: <1991Mar27.233751.24077@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se>
 <holgerl.0587@amiux.UUCP>

In article <holgerl.0587@amiux.UUCP>, holgerl@amiux.UUCP (Holger Lubitz) says:
>
>Anyways: If there is an ECS Paula in the works, what I would like more than
>anything else is support for higher data transfer rates to the floppy
>drives. Say 300k for 5,25"-HD-Drives, 500k for 3,5"-HD-Drives (eliminating
>the need to halve the speed), and eventually also whatever these new
>ED-Drives need (the ones they build into the NeXT-stations).

A variable data rate floppy interface(with some FIFOs on it.) The variable
data rate would allow one to read Mac disk using even standard Amiga DD
floppies and allowed for future higher density floppies.

>Best regards,
>Holger

K. C. Lee
Elec. Eng. Grad. Student