One of the oddities from the old computing world was this #standalone #floppy drive unit.
It spoke RS-232 and was designed to...well, I'm not really sure. I acquired a bunch of them when an employer went out of business, but they've kind of sat on a shelf since then.
I've written a little bit about these TechTran disk drives, check it out.
https://wereboar.com/projects/index.php/2023/01/07/the-techtran-980-standalone-5-14-disk-drive/
@indigoparadox There was a similar device made by a company called ADPI that was a RS-232 addressed cassette deck.
I've seen one in my lifetime.
Interesting. It's been a while since I've seen a standalone data cassette unit.
Back in the day in the late 1980's, I wrote some PC software to replace the (by then) aged ADPI units that were used by CNC machines to store/restore their CNC programs.
Throw away the notoriously flakey ADPI serial cassette unit (I found a price list with a repair cost of $300 in 1988 - over 600 pounds in today's money), and hook it up to your "IBM compatible PC", and you never had to worry about those pesky cassette tapes ever again!
Bryan
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