SOL floppy subsystem options

From: Bill Sudbrink <bills_at_adrenaline.com>
Date: Thu Sep 7 09:31:46 2000

Hopefully, in the next week or two, I'm going to be
getting a SOL. In anticipation of this, I'm wondering
what floppy interfaces one might expect to find in
a SOL. The one I'm getting does not have a floppy card
in it. Looking around, I see that some people have
NorthStars in theirs. I have a spare N* floppy controller,
but I'd rather not go this route as the hard sectored
media is difficult to find. I'll have to inventory my
S-100 cards... I know I have a couple of Cromemcos 4FDC
and 16FDC cards. Would someone have put one of these in
a SOL? I'm not asking if it can be made to work. I'm
trying to get a sense of whether it's appropriate or if
it would be like putting a SoundBlaster32 with 16 Megs
of memory in an original 6MHz PC-AT with a 512K
motherboard.
Received on Thu Sep 07 2000 - 09:31:46 BST