Subj : IMS Series 8000 Microcomputer
To   : Ben Collver
From : Abbub
Date : Sun Apr 28 2024 10:12:02

*** Quoting Ben Collver to Abbub dated 04-28-24 ***
> You mentioned getting it to work with GOTEKs.  Are those USB floppy
> drives?  How did you get it to work with those?
Yeah, it has two GOTEK USB floppy emulators pretending to be 8" Shugarts, and ¨a MFM Emulator rev. D pretending to be a 190 MB full height Maxtor XT2190 MFM ¨drive. I'm using a FD50to34 adapter to connect it to the IMS 401 8" floppy ¨controller board, and the two GOTEK's have the latest version of the ¨flashfloppy ROM installed on them. There was a TON of trail and error that a ¨guy down in TX and myself did to figure out the 'magic recipe', but some of that had to do with the fact that TurboDOS used it's own format to squeeze more data onto the disks than CP/M did.

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