Re: Mystery card!

[tang@pro-newton.cts.com (Bruce Banfield)]

From: colin.williamson@dino.UUCP (Colin Williamson) Writes:
 
>Subject: Mystery card!
 
>If you look on page 36 of the January-Febuary issue of II Alive, you'll
>see a mystery card! What is this? Some people say it's an IBM disk
>connector. I think it would be cool if it was a 486 on a card.
 
>If anyone has any ideas...? (SHH systems released a picture of the card
>to the public to keep us guessing) I need to know what this is.. :)
>colin.williamson@f213.n270.z1.fidonet.org
>"I'll teach you to be happy. I'll teach your grandmother to suck
>eggs!"-- Stinky Wizzleteats, the Happy Happy Joy Joy Song
 
 
Now hopefully Im not mistaken, but I do believe ythe card you are asking
about is the BlueDisk controller.  here is an excerpt that I recently
received.
 
 
That's the BlueDisk. Works with DD, HD and ED disks, has a GS/OS driver
for those that have a GS, and is overall quite nifty. Supported capacities
are: 720k, 800k, 1.44MB, 1.6MB, 2.88MB. (The 800k format is still MFM, not
GCR). With Watson's mtools, you can format and write and read MS-DOS disks,
System 6.01 also let's you read MS-DOS disks automagically. If someone
writes drivers for it (someone said he would, but that's for the future),
the card will also work with inexpensive Floppy-Tape devices such as
the Colorado. The hardware supports it now, what's lacking is software
support.
 
It does not support Apple's 800k disk format. It supports Apple's 1.44MB
disk format (that's obvious from what I said above, I just repeat it
in case GCR and MFM mean nothing to you).
 
Try sending mail to J.LANGE7@genie.geis.com, he created both the Turbo-IDE
and the BlueDisk controller (quite a remarkable person, that man).

 
Anyway thats all I know at this point.  (And I dont even have a copy of II
Alive to see the picture, Damn.  :)   )
 
 
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