Floppy emulator with flash media

> I have found a promising hardware here:
> http://jeanfrancoisdelnero.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html
> but it is only capable of reading from a virtual floppy, not writing to
> it.
>
> Please, if you already have a working solution, tell me about it.

A while ago in a similar thread someone posted this one:

http://www.datexeurope.com/emulator/DTX200en.htm

May be worth a check - I have no idea whether they really have it
etc. Since this question seems to come up every few months
(once I even got an inquiry on such a thing by someone who must have
thought the development costs were within his reach),
please let us know if you find something out about it.

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pehatemp wrote:
> >Are there any commercial adaptors that would replace a floppy drive with
> >some type of flash storage (sd, mmc, thumb drive)? To the host, this
> >would have to look just like the floppy drive it replaced, but use
> >different media.
>
> I can see that the last post here is from last september.
>
> Have you had any luck with this device yet?
> I am looking for a solution for it too.
>
> I have found a promising hardware here:
> http://jeanfrancoisdelnero.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html
> but it is only capable of reading from a virtual floppy, not writing to
> it.
>
> Please, if you already have a working solution, tell me about it.
>
> Thanks,
> David

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:21:35 -0500, "pehatemp" <pehatemp@freemail.hu>
wrote:

>>Are there any commercial adaptors that would replace a floppy drive with 
>>some type of flash storage (sd, mmc, thumb drive)? To the host, this 
>>would have to look just like the floppy drive it replaced, but use 
>>different media.
>
>I can see that the last post here is from last september.
>
>Have you had any luck with this device yet?
>I am looking for a solution for it too.
>
>I have found a promising hardware here:
>http://jeanfrancoisdelnero.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html
>but it is only capable of reading from a virtual floppy, not writing to
>it.
>
>Please, if you already have a working solution, tell me about it.
>
>Thanks, 
>David
>
>
Hello.
I do not know what the initial question was or the application
Here: www.thesvd.com
you can find a virtual disk for some old computers. Also it does not
use a flash card or so. But the nice thing is it connects to a PC so
you can use all kind of memory (:-)
Bu

In article <f8607900-d74c-4ec5-9875-87c930c777d9
@s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, Didi says...
> > I have found a promising hardware here:
> > http://jeanfrancoisdelnero.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html
> > but it is only capable of reading from a virtual floppy, not writing to
> > it.
> >
> > Please, if you already have a working solution, tell me about it.
> 
> A while ago in a similar thread someone posted this one:
> 
> http://www.datexeurope.com/emulator/DTX200en.htm
> 
> May be worth a check - I have no idea whether they really have it
> etc. Since this question seems to come up every few months
> (once I even got an inquiry on such a thing by someone who must have
> thought the development costs were within his reach),
> please let us know if you find something out about it.

I contacted them about that time.  I did hear back asking for more 
information about the application and haven't heard back from them since 
I suggested I only wanted one or two.  I think they mey be looking for 
OEM only.  Although why you would OEM that is a bit of a mystery to me, 
adding MMC/SD seems easier.

Robert

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Robert Adsett wrote:
> ...
> I contacted them about that time.  I did hear back asking for more
> information about the application and haven't heard back from them since
> I suggested I only wanted one or two.  I think they mey be looking for
> OEM only.

Oh come on, it is obvious they just do not have it and want to design
the
thing if they see the cash.
When I got the inquiry I offered to build 100 at $450 each or a few
(4-5 units)
at $30k. This probably beats their price and my timing will probably
beat theirs (certainly if they - as I would - are also starting from
scratch,
which is most likely the case :-).
 Actually I pointed the guy by whom I got the inquiry to them when I
saw
their anouncement (a few months later), I may ask him what he found
out
there.

> ...Although why you would OEM that is a bit of a mystery to me,
> adding MMC/SD seems easier.

 Those looking for MMC/SD card floppy drive replacements are generally
people using machines with some computer which only has an FDD as
a transfer medium - for cutting shapes or whatever. Some of the FDDs
are only DD (not HD, 1.44M), try to find such a diskette. They use
HD diskettes which sometimes may work... (DD disks used to work
fine as HD ones, the reverse was not true IIRC - 20 or so years ago).
So there is no OEM market for that, customers are probably individual
only - and not that many.

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Robert Adsett wrote:
> In article <f8607900-d74c-4ec5-9875-87c930c777d9
> @s12g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, Didi says...
> > > I have found a promising hardware here:
> > > http://jeanfrancoisdelnero.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/index.html
> > > but it is only capable of reading from a virtual floppy, not writing to
> > > it.
> > >
> > > Please, if you already have a working solution, tell me about it.
> >
> > A while ago in a similar thread someone posted this one:
> >
> > http://www.datexeurope.com/emulator/DTX200en.htm
> >
> > May be worth a check - I have no idea whether they really have it
> > etc. Since this question seems to come up every few months
> > (once I even got an inquiry on such a thing by someone who must have
> > thought the development costs were within his reach),
> > please let us know if you find something out about it.
>
> I contacted them about that time.  I did hear back asking for more
> information about the application and haven't heard back from them since
> I suggested I only wanted one or two.  I think they mey be looking for
> OEM only.  Although why you would OEM that is a bit of a mystery to me,
> adding MMC/SD seems easier.
>
> Robert
>
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