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  1. #1
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    Floppy drive emulator for A2100

    I am seeing some USB to floppy emulators on eBay for <$50 and was wondering if anyone has tried one of these. Seems like a nice way to enable USB on an A2100 (although limited to 1.44MB files).

  2. #2
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    I haven't tried one yet, but I am interested as well. I have one machine that has a floppy drive for backups. Note that the cheap ones mention sewing machines and keyboards. The expensive ones mention industrial stuff like robots, but I would think that the emulation would be pretty much the same since you are doing it at the hardware level. I wouldn't mind paying more if I knew the difference. Funny, I just did a cleanup of some old machines... now I wish I had one to experiment with...

  3. #3
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    I put one in one of our Sabre 1500's, it works very well and have them in all of our equipment now. It was the more expensive version than what is on ebay, as this was awhile back when these first came out, but the others are the cheaper versions. The only problem we had was when we used a flash drive that was formatted in NTSB; must be in FAT format. It also has the ability to have CAT5 cable attached and hooked to the network; that's my next step.

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    to kccrusher

    I'd be interested too. Most A2100 run on a version of WinNT 3.5 or 4.0 which isn't supposed to support USB...
    The A2100Di controls do support it - they use Win2K as the OS.

  5. #5
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    This is also floppy emulator:

    Floppy emulator SD card drive-Floppy emuDrive

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