Arrrggghhh... I wish I'd known about this 6 months ago when I replaced the drive on my SQ80. I might do it again anyway - this looks great! James Sent from my iPhone On 2012-05-19, at 10:02 AM, Daniel Forró <dan.for@tiscali.cz> wrote: > Thanks for info, I knew about it and want to buy. Great idea. > > Daniel Forro > > On May 19, 2012, at 8:27 PM, Christian Brunschen wrote: > >> >> >> Hi all, >> >> Floppy drives wear out and even floppies are becoming scarce. Fortunately, there's now an alternative / replacement that's available and not horribly expensive: a floppy drive emulator that emulates a standard IBM-PC or Shugart floppy drive, storing multiple disk images on an SD card, allowing read/write operation, and with verified support for Ensoniq keyboards ... and now that's available in the same physical form factor as a 3.5-inch floppy drive, making it a straight slot-in replacement for a floppy drive: >> >> http://www.lotharek.pl/product.php?pid=42 >> >> Discussion forum: >> >> http://torlus.com/floppy/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=871 >> >> Software, including firmware updates: >> >> http://hxc2001.free.fr/floppy_drive_emulator/ >> >> I just thought this might be useful. >> >> // Christian >> >> >> > >
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Re: [Ensoniq-VFX-SD] Replacement for the floppy drive
2012-05-19 by w.james.meagher@gmail.com