Odd Hardware Items

[tofro]

Kind of reminds me of a NEC FD1139T as well, except the NEC doesn't have the stepper motor on the back. (Used linear voice coil, no really.)

I also found the Canon MD3661 which similarly seems to be a 4"x4" drive.

Does anyone know what sort of interface these laptop floppies use? Is the only difference just a different ribbon cable but otherwise follows the floppy standard? Just want to know if, with the right connector my Kempston Disk Interface could run it. I think someone was working on a clone disk interface. Would be fun to see if you could mount that drive on a board with the interface hardware and slide it into the expansion slot.

Most actually will use the same "electrical interface", but different cables and pinouts. There are adapters that convert one to the other.

[bwinkel67]

I just came across this FPGA project laptop. For only $200 you have a nice laptop platform, now all you need is the skill to program an FPGA. But a QL laptop would be pretty nice.

https://www.tindie.com/products/cycle/o ... -platform/