A Good Idea That Wasn’t
A few weeks ago I designed a right angle adapter PCB for the Floppy Emu. The idea was to make a little board that plugged into a standard Emu and converted it to right angle rear mounting, with the LCD…
Category Floppy Emu
A floppy disk drive emulator for Macintosh computers, using an SD memory card and custom hardware to replace a 3.5″ disk drive and floppy disk.
Bagging the DB-19
After days of fruitless searching, I finally found a shop in Macedonia with a stock of DB-19 male solder cup connectors. I bought them all! To be honest, I had to check a map to learn where Macedonia is, because…
Designing a DB-19 Substitute
I’m still searching for a source of more DB-19 connectors, but so far I’ve been unsuccessful finding a single one. As a backup plan, I’m exploring building a DB-19 substitute using a PCB and 19 individual pins. The result won’t…
Floppy Emu – Back in Stock
After a long delay, Floppy Emu is back in stock and available for sale now. It’s available with a built-in connector for placement at the rear of the Mac, or bundled with a three foot extension cable so you can…
In Search of the Elusive DB19
Discontinued parts are bad, “unobtainium” parts are worse. Floppy Emu uses a 19-pin D-SUB male solder cup connector, otherwise known as DB19P, to connect to the computer’s floppy port. DB19 connectors were never common, and were only used in 1980s…
Board Assembly Headaches
This is what 100 unsaleable Floppy Emus look like. After six weeks of waiting, today I received the new batch of assembled boards, and eagerly opened the box. Excitement gave way to dismay when I discovered that every one of…
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