There he found an ISA board capable of controlling up to eight drives from [Sergey Kiselev] called the Monster Floppy Disk Controller (FDC) — arguably overkill for the task, but too impressive ...

There he found an ISA board capable of controlling up to eight drives from [Sergey Kiselev] called the Monster Floppy Disk Controller (FDC) — arguably overkill for the task, but too impressive ...

You can do the same, using his "Moppy" (short for musical floppy controller) software ... Wire pin 18 from the disk drive into pin two of the Arduino and pin 20 from the drive into Arduino ...

Each floppy disk is divided into 80 tracks radially ... And, because floppy drives don't contain their own controllers, they're far easier to manipulate with third-party boards and tools like ...

Image by Dr. Moddnstine This picture shows the disk drive with a floppy inserted ... the system doesn't need an ancient floppy controller to function. The mod is completely invisible from the ...