Serial floppy drives

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Tue Sep 3 19:26:01 2002

On Mon, 2 Sep 2002, John Foust wrote:

> At 03:31 PM 9/2/2002 -0700, you wrote:
> >Did anybody ever market a floppy disk system that communicated via
> >RS-232?
>
> Sure, a number of applications used them. The Tandy Model 100
> early laptop had one. I've seen others that were used to record
> and play back streams coming from 300-baud-era modems, too.

I've got one of these made by Anderson-Jacobsen. It's one of the coolest
data terminal accessories I have.

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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