24-09-2025, 08:40 PM
I know what I would like in a flash floppy. Something with a header for the USB port, buttons, rotary encoder and display. Something small with only the 34 way connector and 2 pins for +5V and GND at the back. I always end up shucking my Gotek out of their plastic housings and mounting my own bits and pieces on them. Programming via the USB port is fine if it simplifies the design.
Anything that gets in the way of hacking in the bits I want is just in my way. They inevitably end up either inside the computer or in some custom enclosure anyway. I think the only two of the 10 or so Gotek drives I currently have that are still in their original shells are the one in my PC and the "generic" one I tend to use with Microbees, with the OLED on the top. Even that one will be moving to a better case shortly. I've been working on a Gotek based "Volume" in the style of the CIAB.
John
Anything that gets in the way of hacking in the bits I want is just in my way. They inevitably end up either inside the computer or in some custom enclosure anyway. I think the only two of the 10 or so Gotek drives I currently have that are still in their original shells are the one in my PC and the "generic" one I tend to use with Microbees, with the OLED on the top. Even that one will be moving to a better case shortly. I've been working on a Gotek based "Volume" in the style of the CIAB.
John
John "CheshireNoir" Parker
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One Dark Little Kitten
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One Dark Little Kitten