I posted awhile back about an E-mu Emulator sampler I have that uses an old MPI Floppy drive. The info I have says that the drive is supposed to be a Shugart SA400L.
This machine has a whopping 128K of memory and you load the operating system and sound samples off the same disk.
Is there any kind of emulation program that would allow a computer to be hooked to the ribbon cable for the original floppy drive and communicate with the machine?
This way the machine could still function and many of the original floppy disks could be stored and loaded as needed (provided you have a way to get them to a computer to be stored).
I am finally in the process of trying to get this machine running again and am very doubtful that the floppy drive will work after I clean and repair the circuit boards and such.
Hope you all don't think this is a stupid idea, but I would really like to bring this machine back from the dead. It is a very primitive machine, but only about 500 were built and the replacement floppy drives are said to be expensive, not to mention tracking down software. I believe I have sources for software, but am not in a big hurry yet as I have lots to do cleaning and repair wise.
Thanks in advance for any help with this.
This machine has a whopping 128K of memory and you load the operating system and sound samples off the same disk.
Is there any kind of emulation program that would allow a computer to be hooked to the ribbon cable for the original floppy drive and communicate with the machine?
This way the machine could still function and many of the original floppy disks could be stored and loaded as needed (provided you have a way to get them to a computer to be stored).
I am finally in the process of trying to get this machine running again and am very doubtful that the floppy drive will work after I clean and repair the circuit boards and such.
Hope you all don't think this is a stupid idea, but I would really like to bring this machine back from the dead. It is a very primitive machine, but only about 500 were built and the replacement floppy drives are said to be expensive, not to mention tracking down software. I believe I have sources for software, but am not in a big hurry yet as I have lots to do cleaning and repair wise.
Thanks in advance for any help with this.