[sebhc] SVD.

[Bill Loguidice]

www.thesvd.com

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Bill Loguidice, Co-Founder and Editor
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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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