>
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas on interfacing a floppy disk drive to a PIC? I
> > know it seems absurd, but there are LOTS of applications for such an
>  interface.
> >
>
> Not absurd at all. In fact I was thinking of how to interface a parallel
> ZIP drive to a PIC. Imagine having 100 megabytes of removable storage!!!

Well, all the source is available, look in any slackware linux mirror, and
you'll find that the zip drive is supported, it's basically a scsi type
interface on the printer port.



>
> BAJ
>


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