<electronic_eel>
chris_99: re price - esden is planning to manufacture glasgows, but he didn't do a proper price calculation yet AFAIK
<electronic_eel>
but my guess would be around 200$ as there are quite a lot of parts on glasgow
<chris_99>
gotcha, thanks!
<electronic_eel>
but if you can do bga soldering you can build one yourself
<ZirconiumX>
The prototypes come up to about $200, yeah
<electronic_eel>
re floppy: the comment in the floppy applet says "read and write disks using IBM/Shugart floppy drives"
<electronic_eel>
but I haven't read further in the code or tested this applet myself
<electronic_eel>
oh, sorry, I read further and it says "Writes are not currently supported" hmm
<chris_99>
yeah, sorry that's the bit i meant. but i haven't looked through the code in detail
<electronic_eel>
do you have an application that needs floppy writing?
<esden>
electronic_eel: according to the last cost calculation I made they should retail at around ~$170 but it is not fixed in stone and is subject to changes. :)
<chris_99>
yeah i wanted to play with a 5.25" floppy, writing to disk
<electronic_eel>
esden: thanks, seems I was being conservative in predicting the price
<esden>
yeah you are not that far off :D
<esden>
who knows, depending on the tariffs and other things it might go up... :/
<electronic_eel>
now we have leeway to add some more expensive ti parts in the next rev ;)
<esden>
lol :D
<gruetzkopf>
soo many small components packed at their min
<electronic_eel>
yes, I got my glasgow today and when you see it with your own eyes you really see how densely packed it is
<electronic_eel>
chris_99: when whitequark wrote the floppy applet I think she had primarily backup of floppys in mind
<electronic_eel>
I don't know how much work it would be to add writing capability. Maybe you should ask her
<chris_99>
gotcha that makes sense. backup is definitely more important
<electronic_eel>
yeah. I don't know if I still would want to write to floppys today. There are floppy emulators for old computers out there that store image files onto sd card or similar. They connect up like a traditional floppy drive
<electronic_eel>
once you have a backup of the floppy you could use one of these
<electronic_eel>
with some software work glasgow could of course become such an emulator