Rich Mellor wrote: > I did speak to Peter Graf about this a couple of years ago - > and he said that [an SD card microdrive cart] would just be too expensive a solution, > even if it were feasible.
I can see why that would be - there'd be some complex & high precision engineering required, and you'd only sell a few dozen of them at best, even if you could set the price at something the hobby world is likely to stand - and after all that, how many QLs still have decently clean read heads, after X miles of MDV cart has passed through them. IMHO, a far better - and much easier - approach would be to make an SD card drive which plugged into the microdrive expansion slot & appeared as MDV3,4,etc. I can't imagine the logic is that difficult, and I suspect an Arduino could bit-bash it with ease. Not sure if that's a new idea of if something already exists? (the QL-SD card project that Dilwyn mentioned?) Cheers, Ade. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
