If someone can glue a Super-I/O chip on to an S-100 bus card someone
should be able to glue a USB host controller chip on to an S-100 card.
Maybe something like a Philips ISP116A1 (
http://www.semiconductors.philips.com/cgi-bin/pldb/pip/isp1161a1.html
) which has a microprocessor PIO interface instead of the more typical
PCI busmaster interface of most USB host controllers.
The software involved in doing data transfers to a USB floppy or flash
memory device would not be trivial to implement, and might require a
dedicated microprocessor instead of trying to run it on the S-100 host
processor.
On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 18:35:31 -0600, Randy McLaughlin
<randy_at_s100-manuals.com> wrote:
> With more PC's dropping 3.5" drives does that mean there will be a limit to
> new drives all together?
>
> Are USB drives a reasonable option.
Received on Sat Jan 29 2005 - 20:26:13 GMT