From: larry_fosdick@hotmail.com   
      
   "Knut Roll-Lund"  wrote in message   
   news:ac6dnXFy3dHZcHHe4p2dnA@telenor.com...   
   > 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.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> More and more, the latest PCs don't even have a floppy controller at all.   
   >>   
   >> Tom Lake   
   > 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   
      
   Wow, someone who uses thin-net!  Too bad you're not in the US.  I still have   
   a spool of thin-net cable, a bunch of BNC connectors, and a couple of   
   thin-net cards lying around, including an old 3COM PC-card with dual media   
   support.   
      
   Larry   
      
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