Serial floppy drives

From: Curt Vendel <curt_at_atari-history.com>
Date: Mon Sep 2 19:02:00 2002

No kidding, wow!!! I've gotta find one and see if I could get it to work on
the Atari Serial I/O bus, this should be interesting.... :-)



Curt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
To: <cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Monday, September 02, 2002 6:39 PM
Subject: Re: Serial floppy drives


> On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, tim lindner wrote:
> > Did anybody ever market a floppy disk system that communicated via
> > RS-232?
>
> Yes, but, ...
> Only one really "caught on"
> Radio Shack "Portable Disk Drive" was sold for the Model 100.
> It was serial, but not quite RS-232. The first version was
> Single-Density? on a 3.5" disk.
>
>
Received on Mon Sep 02 2002 - 19:02:00 BST