From: kr-lund@nogarbage.online.no   
      
   Tom Lake wrote:   
   >>I think XP can do 5.25" but it won't allow you to write TRS-80 format   
   >>because this would be done by accessing the floppycontroller directly.   
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   >   
   > More and more, the latest PCs don't even have a floppy controller at all.   
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   > Tom Lake   
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   >   
   I would advice agains buying such, same as I do when there is no serialline.   
      
   IMHO some level of compatibility goes into being a PC.   
      
   But then I'm using a PC for more than web browsing and MP3 playing.   
      
   Someone could create a replacement native floppy driver for NT/2K/XP   
   which would have an interface for emulators to do their tricks.   
   Unfortunately I know nothing about creating windows drivers.   
      
   My workaround wit XP is to have a P200 PC on Win95 with net. It does   
   trs-80 floppies and talks rs-232 to the Apple, it is also the "bridge"   
   to my old pc's which use "thin" net. (BTW I scavenge and today I found   
   two "thick" to "thin" convertors. So maybe I can get my PS/2 on the   
   network too, it has a network card but only with "thick".)   
      
   Knut   
      
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