RE: Digest for altair-duino@googlegroups.com - 3 updates in 1 topic

[Tom Lake]

The Shugart 800 series drives are usually available on eBay as are the Teac 5.25” and almost any 3.5” floppy drives. 8” media is usually available on eBay and 5.25” and 3.5” floppies are available almost anywhere. I have a couple Shugarts and also a couple 5.25” Teacs and switch cables to switch between them. I only use the 8” drives occasionally. The 5.25” drives are 100% reliable so far. I’ve never had an error in daily use.

 

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Mass Storage solutions for 8800c?

Jim Rauser <jim.r...@gmail.com>: Sep 22 12:23PM -0700 I've started assembling the boards for my 8800c, and realized that I don't yet have a good mass-storage system. I've played a little with the SD card drive on the Altair Duino, but I'd like something that will integrate smoothly into an S100 system and CP/M, I have a couple of Mike Douglas's FDC+ (bare) boards but am unsure about the availability of drives and media.   I'd be interested in a standalone S100 board with a (micro-) SD drive on it, or in a medium-sized (32G) hard drive solution. Does anyone know of/can anyone recommend a good (semi-) standalone solution?   Thanks, Jim Rauser

Terry Fox <wb4...@gmail.com>: Sep 22 06:19PM -0700 John has designed a couple of S100 boards that use Compact Flash cards with an IDE interface. I believe that he is in the middle of designing an SD card board right now, which he has mentioned on the group Zoom calls. Terry

Walt Perko <r4r...@gmail.com>: Sep 22 08:25PM -0700 Hi,   Once I got my FDC+ working with the Serial Drive Server software on my PC I realized that the CF card system is too much work. On my Altair-Duino Pro computers I was pulling the microSD card out every other day to do updates on stuff, changing the configuration etc. I always wanted to have back-ups on my PC so I could recover if I got things screwed-up.   Using the FDC+ Serial Drive Server software on my PC has eliminated 99% of the hassle with floppies and files and updates.   I don't even use the CF card in my IMSAI-JAIR CBBS computer anymore ... it's just too easy to have .DSK floppies on my PC.     .

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