Questions about Central Point Deluxe Option board

From: John Honniball <coredump_at_gifford.co.uk>
Date: Sun Jun 30 12:39:52 2002

"Peter C. Wallace" wrote:
> Actually it seems to me that if you wanted to create a universal
> floppy controller, the whole FDC + bus interface would fit easily in a <$20
> FPGA (with maybe some small amount of external SRAM).

Actually, I didn't notice any RAM on the board that was scanned
and put up on the web. But I did notice a little 8-pin chip that
I didn't recognise. A Google search for "UM8326" revealed
this information about a board called "Transcopy":

   http://dbz.icequake.net/oldskool/dob/transcopy.html

Is this actually the same hardware?

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John Honniball
coredump_at_gifford.co.uk
Received on Sun Jun 30 2002 - 12:39:52 BST

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