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From: sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.periphs
Subject: RAM floppy disk emulator wanted
Message-ID: <185@bbncca.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 13-Oct-83 01:23:10 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 13 01:23:10 1983
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Are there RAM drives around that present a 5 1/4" floppy disk interface
to the world?  That is, they would be plug-interchangable with an
5 1/4" floppy disk (DD/80tk preferred, but not required.)  The only
difference would be seek time, which would be instantaneous.
They could be daisy-chained with regular floppies drives.

SemiDisks only partially satisfy this, since they do not provide a
5 1/4" floppy disk hardware interface.  The hardware I'm considering (TRS CoCo)
cannot support such a device.

Any pointers?

/Steve Dyer
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