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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Past Blast - "Wonder Woman 1984" - Corp Guy Using PET
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2025 01:52:28 +0100
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On 06/04/2025 00:47, c186282 wrote:
> IMHO getting, or
>    faking, the FDDs would be a little challenging.

I wrote disk drivers a long time ago, for an 8" floppy...
You could take a Pi Pico make it a Z80 running CP/M with a USB keyboard, 
and stuff the flash with all the CP/M software you would ever need.
Could even bit bang a parallel port...


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There’s a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons and reasons 
that sound good.

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