With the massive new Adafruit manufacturing facility, and Ladyada & pt’s transfer to Brooklyn additionally full, it’s time to show our consideration to some older tasks which have fallen by the wayside. Right here’s an replace to our Floppsy board, it’s floppy disk-shaped and is meant to be a completely open {hardware} / open supply interface to archive diskettes. This model provides Apple Disk ][ support via a 2×10 IDC connector. Thankfully we were able to recycle many of the GPIO from the classic ‘shugart’ 2×17 IDC connector for the diskII, but we had to splurge for an extra -12V bias power supply – we went for the TPS65130 a low-cost split supply generator – a nifty chip that is! this version will also support floppy disk emulation mode by letting us control the direction of the two-level shifters. An additional GPIO expander provides the 4-way button interface, which we will use for offline disk imaging.
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