Serial floppy drives

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_6502_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed Sep 4 00:10:00 2002

--- Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Tony Duell wrote:
>
> > > Did anybody ever market a floppy disk system that communicated via
> > > RS-232?
> >
> > Yes, many. Without even thinking about it, I can come up with...
> >
> > Radio Shack sold 2 models (PDD1 and PDD2 IIRC) for the Model 100, Model
> > 200, etc laptops
>
> Did everyone forget about the most obvious examples? The Commodore 1541
> and the Atari 810 are both serial devices, no?

Serial, yes, but TTL-level sync serial, not RS-232. The C= IEC bus is
quite well documented. I expect the Atari bus is, too.

-ethan


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