Not that I have looked to close, but what about the IOMEGA Clik drive? 40M,
with a PC interface? Small package as well.

I don't know much about them because the team that did the development is in
California, and I only know the guys here in the Utah plant (they are down
the road abit, and to the right).



-----Original Message-----
From: Bruno Tremblay [mailto:btrembl@GEL.ULAVAL.CA]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 11:45 AM
To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: PIC to FDC?


Hi,
        The idea to use a flash card or EEPROM is good for (let say) a new
device. But the problem is when you want use your stored data. To my
knowledge, only laptop can read flash card, and I don't know any PC that
can read EEPROM directly. So, a floppy is a good idea too.

        It maybe painful to design a new device with a floppy drive but
how will use it afther that? And floppies are so cheap, you can use that
for archives.


Bruno Tremblay
Graduate Electrical Engineer
(my very old web page)http://www.gel.ulaval.ca/~btrembl/

On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Harold Hallikainen wrote:

> On Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:26:16 -0500 Dave VanHorn <dvanhorn@CEDAR.NET>
> writes:
> >>         Anyone have any ideas on interfacing a PIC to a floppy disk
> >> controller?
> >
> >Dont? :)
> >
> >It's not nice, they require you to take relatively large chunks of
> >data
> >fast, and you have to manipulate a directory structure of some kind.
> >
> >Compact flash cards might be a more viable alternative, equal or
> >better
> >storage capacity, same portability, and you can write at your leisure.
> >
> >1.5 mby in serial EEPROMs wouldn't be too bad either, if you need
> >cheap.
>
>
>         Thanks for the advice!  Only problem is that the competition IS
> doing storage on floppy.  The drive and media costs are so attractive
> that it SEEMS worthwhile to spend the time on the code.  I may be wrong
> (it's happened before...).
>
> Harold
>
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