All-In-One Interface For All Your Retro/Legacy Drives

From: Jeffrey H. Ingber <jingber_at_ix.netcom.com>
Date: Mon Oct 28 20:48:00 2002

Gratuitously ripped from Slashdot:

An anonymous reader writes "Individual computers have announced a new
version of they're multi-format floppy controller the Cat Weasel. This
new version (Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper) has a few surprises such as 3
different interfaces to connect it to the host computer and a socket for
an original C64 SID chip :). 'The main purpose of the Catweasel has
always been to allow access to non-standard disks using normal PC-disk
drives, even if you usually need a completely different computer for
that. The capacity of the drive does not matter in this case: A 5.25
inch drive with 1.2MByte capacity will read and write a C-64 disk with
170KByte as well as a 3.5 inch drive with 1.44MByte can access a
1,76MByte Amiga disk. Together with a company that has specialized in
data recovery, we're working on the implementation of more than 1100
different disk formats, and it does not matter that this has been
classified impossible by others before. Even the 800KByte disks from
older Macintosh computers can be used in standard 1.44MB drives,
although the original drives have rotated their disks at variable
speeds.' Find out more at the Catweasel MK3 PCI/Flipper page."
Received on Mon Oct 28 2002 - 20:48:00 GMT