[GTALUG] FDD/USB emulator

[Zbigniew Koziol]

Dears,

Did anyone around had anything with these?

Since FDD is commonly not used anymore and since there is still around a 
lot of equipment using it some fine people come with the idea of 
building a replacement for FDD that would emulate its functioning while 
the data would be stored on USB pen drive. It is indeed a good idea: I 
guess that a mass production of the device should be no more than around 
20-50 $ while these units are sold for up to 500 US$ (in Poland up to 
500 PLN, which is 4 times less). Where that is used? Very often still, 
in programmable musical instruments and, first of all, in machines used 
in industry. I am landed now at the National Center for Nuclear Research 
near Warsaw, Poland. And I was given such a toy, a FDD/USB emulator 
(EMUF-720F), for installing it in Robofill 200 machine which is used for 
wire-cutting metal. I am fine with that. After some Internet searching I 
know already, mostly, how to use it. With one exception: I do not know 
how to boot the machine from that emulator.

Help is to be sincerely appreciated.
zb.

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Zbigniew Kozioł
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