Re: apple 2 usb
- From: "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 01:11:11 -0800
Mark McDougall wrote:
What I've always thought would be useful is a device that looks like a
floppy disk drive from one side and connects to the PC via USB on the
other. Then, a PC program 'serves' disk accesses from the
Apple/TRS-80/etc. That way, you could store a complete library of floppy
disk images on the PC yet run them on the real hardware without the need
to transfer to real floppy disks etc.
That would, of course be useful--but it could have been even
more easily implemented years ago using the PC's parallel port,
but never was...
It would be pleasant to find that the remaining Apple II
community marshalled the interest to do this.
(Of course, it begs the usual question of representation and
handling of copy-protected disks, spiral tracks, etc., but
perhaps they are simply ruled out.)
-michael
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