HP floppy emulator Re: Reburbished HP-85s - Wow, those look great! Message #14 Posted by John on 8 Jan 2007, 9:14 p.m., in response to message #13 by Howard Owen
Hi Howard,
The topic of some sort of replacement for an Amigo or CS-80 floppy drive (such as your suggestion of a PC with an HP-IB card) is one that has been raised a few times before.
Has anyone made any progress in building such a system, ie a modern replacment for an HP-IB floppy drive? (Or HP-IL for that matter).
This topic was raised on classiccmp in the past. I assume various people have tried and realised this is harder than it first seems.
I think I recall another approach was to reverse engineer a drive (such as the HP 9121D) based on a disassembly of the drive's microprocessor firmware.
I urge anyone who has started such a project to provide details of what they have done, so save others from repeating exactly the same thing, and maybe being able to go a little bit further. I am sure this problem is solvable, and a co-operative approach would be faster to suceed than a solitary individual.
Regards,
John
PS
Here are some other suggestions / ideas / info:
http://www.series80.org/Articles/downloading-disk-images.html
(last paragraph)
http://www.classiccmp.org/pipermail/cctech/2003-May/014055.html
http://www.motherboardpoint.com/t50776-lf-hp-9121ds-amigo-protocol.html
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