Date   : Thu, 13 Oct 2005 10:29:32 +0100
From   : "Kris Adcock" <kris@...>
Subject: Re: Programming the 8271 and 1770 FDC's from BASIC

--- Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk@...> wrote:
> 
> Out of interest, how easy is this?
> 
> I'm idly thinking that having a BBC hooked up to the PC via a serial 
> link and running some sort of "Son of Xfer" software would be handy in 
> making/restoring disk images for some of the other non-Acorn hardware 
> that I use. The BBC's probably got the best BASIC in a machine of that 
> timeframe.
> 

In Acorn User October 1984 there's an article called "Take Command of the
8271 chip" by Richard Harris which describes this sort of thing. It even
includes a program in the Yellow Pages that clones floppies.

I seem to recall finding this article on one of the Beeb sites that began to
collect AU/TMU page scans.

All the best,

Kris.