SOL floppy subsystem options

From: Douglas Quebbeman <dhquebbeman_at_theestopinalgroup.com>
Date: Thu Sep 7 10:39:56 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.

Processor Technology had a HD system they called "Helios",
which used (IIRC) Micropolis hard-sectored disks (they
may have been "firm-sectored" tho). I think most went the
NorthStar route, tho.

I had intended (and still hope) to get a Morrow/ThinkerToys
Discus 2D system for my Sol.

hth,
-dq
Received on Thu Sep 07 2000 - 10:39:56 BST