Re: [Hampshire] Floppy Disk Drive - Short Notice

2011-10-27 Thread James Bensley
On 25 October 2011 09:15, Bob Dunlop bob.dun...@xyzzy.org.uk wrote: Or maybe time to step up a notch, and down in price at #17.50 + VAT/pp[1]. 32bit 72MHz ARM Cortex processor 128K Flash, 20K RAM on an Arduino footprint board.  LeafLabs even provide an Arduino like IDE thats more or less

Re: [Hampshire] Floppy Disk Drive - Short Notice

2011-10-25 Thread Bob Dunlop
Hi, On Sun, Oct 23 at 07:06, James Bensley wrote: Although, thanks to Chris' generous donation, as I only had one drive to hand, I was able to work out how to have multiple drives running from the same single threaded controller (in my case my Arduino Duemilanove, ATmega328). You can

Re: [Hampshire] Floppy Disk Drive - Short Notice

2011-10-24 Thread Philip Stubbs
On 23 October 2011 19:06, James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 October 2011 13:21, Victor Churchill victorchurch...@gmail.com wrote: Absolutely none of my business but the request sparked a bit of curiosity in me as to what one might want a few floppy disk drive for. I wondered if it

Re: [Hampshire] Floppy Disk Drive - Short Notice

2011-10-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 09:06:55 +0100 Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: Hello Philip, Now that you have been sussed, you are obliged to make a recording of this, and post a link to it here. :-) Weren't owners of Commodore floppy drives (1541?) back in the C64 days able to do this sort of

Re: [Hampshire] Floppy Disk Drive - Short Notice

2011-10-24 Thread Peter B.
Sorry but I must ask. Y floppy drives? They are pretty much obsolete now are they not? On Oct 22, 2011 10:55 PM, James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: I will have to say thanks but no thanks. Im off to Brighton next weekend but Chris has been very generous to me and supplied me with a

Re: [Hampshire] Floppy Disk Drive - Short Notice

2011-10-23 Thread Victor Churchill
Absolutely none of my business but the request sparked a bit of curiosity in me as to what one might want a few floppy disk drive for. I wondered if it might be a project like this ;-) http://www.howtogeek.com/news/floppy-drives-play-the-imperial-march-video/6806/ -- Please post to:

Re: [Hampshire] Floppy Disk Drive - Short Notice

2011-10-23 Thread Jan Henkins
Excellent! Symphony No. 1024 The Floppy! :-) -- Regards, Jan Henkins James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 October 2011 13:21, Victor Churchill victorchurch...@gmail.com wrote: Absolutely none of my business but the request sparked a bit of curiosity in me as to what one might want a

[Hampshire] Floppy Disk Drive - Short Notice

2011-10-22 Thread James Bensley
Hi Everyone, I'm heading into Southampton town center today and although this is a bit short notice, as I'm new round here I thought someone on here would have a better idea than me on the following; Are there any small computer shops in town? I don't want PC World, giant electrical seller type

Re: [Hampshire] Floppy Disk Drive - Short Notice

2011-10-22 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
On 22 October 2011 09:10, James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm heading into Southampton town center today and although this is a bit short notice, as I'm new round here I thought someone on here would have a better idea than me on the following; Are there any small

Re: [Hampshire] Floppy Disk Drive - Short Notice

2011-10-22 Thread Chris. Aubrey-Smith
On 22 October 2011 09:20, James Courtier-Dutton james.dut...@gmail.comwrote: On 22 October 2011 09:10, James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm heading into Southampton town center today and although this is a bit short notice, as I'm new round here I thought someone on

Re: [Hampshire] Floppy Disk Drive - Short Notice

2011-10-22 Thread Chris. Aubrey-Smith
On 22 October 2011 10:55, Chris. Aubrey-Smith cas...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 October 2011 09:20, James Courtier-Dutton james.dut...@gmail.comwrote: On 22 October 2011 09:10, James Bensley jwbens...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everyone, I'm heading into Southampton town center today and although