[sebhc] SVD.

[Steve Shumaker]

thanks!   looks like quite a useful tool!

s shumaker




At 04:52 PM 3/23/2006 -0500, you wrote:
>www.thesvd.com
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: sebhc-bounces at sebhc.org
> > [mailto:sebhc-bounces at sebhc.org] On Behalf Of Steve Shumaker
> > Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2006 4:11 PM
> > To: sebhc at sebhc.org
> > Subject: RE: [sebhc] SVD.
> >
> > I obviously came into the middle of a thread here..  can
> > someone post the
> > SVD web site mentioned? - I'd like to take a look at it.
> > thanks
> >
> > s shumaker
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > At 07:32 AM 3/21/2006 -0600, you wrote:
> > > > How is that SVD? I was looking at his website the other day
> > > > and was thinking about building one of those. From the site
> > > > it looks like this unit will emulate more than one floppy at
> > > > a time. Is that correct?
> > > >
> > > > None of my floppy drives are worth a tinkers &(^#% now and
> > > > seem to ruin any floppy I stick in there. The SVD might solve
> > > > all my problems for me.
> > > >
> > > > Ron
> > >
> > >Ron (and all) -
> > >
> > >The SVD is a great product! In its current configuration it
> > will emulate
> > >two H8/H89 hard-sector floppies; I'm waiting for Eric to
> > come out with
> > >"Son of SVD" with more RAM and the ability to emulate more/higher
> > >density disks.
> > >
> > >I used the SVD to create the original disk images in the
> > SEBHC archives,
> > >basically trying to treat my original H8 disks as read-once sources.
> > >Since Eric includes a couple bootable images (both HDOS and
> > CP/M) with
> > >the SVD, you can build a system without a working floppy - though of
> > >course you must have a working controller - and then work
> > backwards with
> > >real drives and media to test your drives.
> > >
> > >Several other list members have used other methods to load
> > and retrieve
> > >images, initally resulting in a couple different though convertible
> > >formats. Steven went through and converted everything in the
> > archive to
> > >a common format and I think Eric has since modified his software to
> > >produce the same image format as everyone else.
> > >
> > >In addition, the SVD can also be used with several other vintage
> > >machines to load/emulate/create images so it really is useful (if
> > >anything vintage computing related can truly be given that
> > >description!).
> > >
> > >Jack
> > >
> > >
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