Re: floppy drive emulator hardware usb or sdcard

On Apr 16, 11:53 am, "alfons de wolf" <fons.de_wolfn5_s...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I was looking on the internet
for the HARDWARE-replacement of old 3"1/2 floppy drives in
PC's running CDOS, version 1988,
or
PS/2-PC's, using MS-DOS NOT Y2000K, date set < y2000
still used as programming terminals in the industry.

( CDOS = Concurrent Dos,
PS/2-PC is a dos-terminal in a public room,
the previous PC did disappear some night )

We have plenty of problems to read the floppies,
because the quality of both
- floppy drives
- floppies
is going down.
Also new floppies sold in the shop are often a problem ..

If anyone knows hardware that can replaces a 1.44 Mb floppy drive in
the old PC's =< Pentium 2 PC's ?

I would like to put my SD-Card or USB-stick in the front-panel
on the PC,
and read or write it as if it is the second floppy drive B.

Is the next thing the only solution for my problem ?

= = = = i found only this project on the internet :

http://www.torlus.com/floppy/index.php?News

jan 2008
don't plan anymore to manufacture and sell this Floppy Emulator :-(.

the developer on his french website says that a limited
production is going on ..

http://jeanfrancoisdelnero.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html
Dernière minute:
Une fabrication d'une petite série de la version USB de l'emulateur est en
cours de préparation.
Pour en profiter inscrivez-vous sur le forum.

18-03-2008:
Un reportage sur ce projet a été réalisé et diffusé par la chaine NoLife ;-)

One possibility is a virtual drive. One, create a virtual drive in
memory. Two, make an image of your floppy disc contents on a flash
drive. Three copy the image from the flash drive to your virtual
drive. Four, access the virtual drive just like it was a floppy
drive.

For more information see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_drive
And especially the link to a free floppy drive emulator.

Howard
.

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