Tuesday, May 31, 2011

An SD card reader floppy interface

You have a machine that only accepts floppy disks, but these are increasingly scarce? The reliability of the 3.5 inch floppy prevents you from working properly on older machines and large that can not be updated? There is a solution. An SD card reader (HC) interfaced to the 34 pin connector for floppy drives.

The device, sold between 80 and 120 €, accepts SDHC cards and has a small integrated display. Used to read and write, it actually emulates two disk drives using image files. It accepts images from many software and compatibility is present for most of the machines of the last century, the Atari ST in the Amstrad CPC through the Amiga or even ...

PC. The rate remains relatively low, the interface for floppy disk limit around 500 kilobits per second (about 60 kb / s) but the device seems effective. Note, little refinement, the device includes an audio interface that simulates the sound of a floppy drive. Finally, brilliant idea, an interface built into the device itself can select the image to load into the machine.

A good way to store the six 5.25-inch diskettes Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade on one SD card 8 MB

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