Come on now, all cruising said is that he doesn't want a tweener machine, and if you don't have the space for one, why bother with it? That's where having *in this case* an XT with some sort of HD floppy drive capability is useful, direct transfer between a modern pc and the pc, with no questions asked. There are MANY ways of doing this, all of which are in these forums. Using an 8-bit HD controller, using a 16-bit super I/o with only the floppy enabled via 2MXbios, just to name a couple.
Stone, I appreciate having a tweener just as much as the next guy, but everyone's needs do vary, as such, so does mileage. If he doesn't want one due to some kind of constraint, then so be it, he doesn't want one. AND I admit, when I first got into the vintage computing scene, I was worried where I would find the parts to, we can't jump on him for having such concerns. Maybe, just Maybe it IS hard to find parts in Sweden, I wouldn't know, I'm not from there. Maybe he knows costs to ship internationally can get prohibitive as well?
Cruising, Stone has some good points about the tweener machine, however as you have stated, you don't want. No big deal, just look for the other 8-bit HD solutions that exist, earlier in this thread XT-FDC was mentioned, I also mentioned 8-bit HD floppy controllers from that era, I have 2 of those, it was also mentioned using 2MXbios, in this thread as well. No one here is out to get you, and I don't believe that Stone was trying to come across as rude in ANY sense of the term, some of us on these forums have been around long enough, we just get right to the point.
I would rather help someone, even if we can't give a complete solution to an issue, rather than see anyone arguing about anything. This thread is about a floppy question, can we get it back to that topic without ripping each others heads off?
