Den Thu, 10 May 2018 09:24:54 -0500 skrev Jim Brain <brain@jbrain.com>: > On 5/10/2018 3:01 AM, Mia Magnusson wrote: > > > > Btw, why do people buy ZoomFloppy when they don't intend to use the > > IEEE 488 port? A XUM1541 does the same job for a smaller amount of > > money. > I always wonder if I am just missing something in the translation of > comments like these. > > It seems the suggest the goal should be to place the design files > online for Commodore projects and focus energy on having someone else > cost reduce the boards to the minimal use case and sell on eBay. I were under the impression that both versions were generally available and at different costs due to a real ZoomFloppy needing a rather large pcb and a microcontroller with enoguh I/O pins. Here in Sweden a guy makes a XUM1541 version which is about 1.5" * 1.5" (if I get the imperial measurements correct), about the least size you can have for a 24-pin and a 14-pin DIL footprint, a 6-pin DIN socket and a 10 pin DIL socket (for some kind of fast loader cable to a 1541). The 24-pin DIL footprint houses a socket with what I think is an arduino nano (or mini or whatever they are called) clone, containing the micro USB socket. This seems to be far smaller than the XUM1541's that's available otherwise. Atleast the 3D printed shells (actual products and files to download) are far too big and have the wrong format. This isn't any critique of the ZoomFloppy, I'm just suprised that all those C64/VIC20/C128/Plus/4/C16 people buy a product with an IEEE port which they probably will never use. No offense intended! -- (\_/) Copy the bunny to your mails to help (O.o) him achieve world domination. (> <) Come join the dark side. /_|_\ We have cookies.Received on 2018-05-10 21:00:07
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