Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Thu Aug 12 05:34:41 2004

On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 00:13, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
> >From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
> >
> >truly demented idea:
> >build a hardware device that can read the image file, connects
> >via 34 or 50 pin cable to an FDC, and that produces pulses
> >that look like disk data to the FDC.
> >
> Hi
> It has already been done. I can look up the web page if you like.
> Dwight

yes, please :-)

I remember asking about this a while back, specifically wondering if a
PC parallel port was fast enough to drive it (not without buffering at
some sort of level, it seemed)

I wouldn't mind seeing what someone else has come up with.

cheers

Jules
Received on Thu Aug 12 2004 - 05:34:41 BST