Parallel drive (was: USB 5.25" floppy drive - do it

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Thu Jun 10 16:55:18 2004

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004, Jules Richardson wrote:
> Not sure if such as a PC parallel port is fast enough to cope with the
> data rate of a floppy drive and leave enough time for the CPU to do the
> processing though... but that'd be nice; little more than a cable and a
> bit of glue logic hooked up to a parallel port that could be quickly
> swapped between machines.

MicroSolutions (DeKalb IL) in their "BackPack" line, made parallel port
floppy drives. I have a 2.8M 3.5" from them, but they also made a lot of
other models.
Received on Thu Jun 10 2004 - 16:55:18 BST