Woa Peter,
    That was a long time ago. I had dual 8" floppies on my home brew
computer. The data rate is twice that of the 5 1/4". Give me a proto board,
a WD 1791, a handful of manuals (actually, I think it could be easier to
implement through the parallel port) ..... NO, don't get me going on that
stuff again!!

Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 2:44 AM
Subject: RE: Re: New Pentax DSLR With Exising K Mount


> I think you can.  The cable connections might need a bit of work and you
> might have
> to write a driver but there should be no impediment beyond that.  (Then
> again I used to
> regularly write hardware drivers).
>
> At 05:37 PM 12/14/2002 -0600, you wrote:
> >Alas, I would like to be able to use 8-inch floppy disks with my PC but
> >I cannot. ;-)
> >
> >Len
> >---
> >
> > > In fact Alek, I was serious.  I would like to be able to use older
> > > screw mount lenses on a DSLR!
> > >
> > > Andre
>

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