Folks,
Not to steal thunder from Chuck(G), but I have successfully booted my 11/53 from a USB flash stick.
It was actually pretty easy, starting with a cheap (24 USD shipped) Gotek floppy emulator from ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/281215864477?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
The emulator was attached to a Rqdx3 board, which recognized it as a rx33. I plugged in a 2gb sony flash stick and formatted by powering it on with both buttons pressed. It formatted 1000 virtual floppy images on the stick. I then booted xxdp, and used zrqch0 to format the 'floppy', initialize du1:, copy/boot du0: du1:, copy/files du0: du1: and I had a bootable flash drive.
I haven't tried capturing the disk image from flash or inserting my own images yet. But it does work out of the box for this particular 1.44mb emulator...
? ; - )
Not to steal thunder from Chuck(G), but I have successfully booted my 11/53 from a USB flash stick.
It was actually pretty easy, starting with a cheap (24 USD shipped) Gotek floppy emulator from ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/281215864477?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
The emulator was attached to a Rqdx3 board, which recognized it as a rx33. I plugged in a 2gb sony flash stick and formatted by powering it on with both buttons pressed. It formatted 1000 virtual floppy images on the stick. I then booted xxdp, and used zrqch0 to format the 'floppy', initialize du1:, copy/boot du0: du1:, copy/files du0: du1: and I had a bootable flash drive.
I haven't tried capturing the disk image from flash or inserting my own images yet. But it does work out of the box for this particular 1.44mb emulator...
? ; - )
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