Chris Caudle <chris(a)chriscaudle.org> writes: It has connectors to the floppy controller of the MS40. It also has a connector "floppy out" and a connector "SCSI" and it is hooked up to the MIDI IN. Apparently you can use the front panel controls to send some files from floppy/floppies/harddisk to the MIDI IN and control the copying of floppies to an internal harddisk (or a second floppy?) and let that serve files. Probably pointless to use this rather than an USB floppy drive emulator (the stuff mapping an USB stick to 1000 floppy disks) these days, except that it will also accept (and copy/handle/whatever) genuine floppy disks. The raw connection to MIDI IN also is kind of weird since the MS40 is pretty good at playing MIDI files (though it doesn't take remote control commands from files). I'd have been intrigued if there were a harddisk actually installed. As it is, I doubt this will serve as more than an incredibly complex floppy drive to me, so I'll likely swap it for a Gotek. Somewhat impressive that something as complex as that was available in floppy size factor (including a proper floppy drive) in the 1990s. -- David Kastrup

"David W. Jones" <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> writes: I've seen that info but no, that is just a naming clash. This drive here has SCSI and "Floppy out" connectors and is there for extending a device using a floppy (like in this case an arranger) to employ a SCSI hard disk. Since it is wired up via the standard MFM floppy bus, it will not end up significantly faster than the floppy, just more convenient. The curious thing is that I don't see how this arranger would even fit a SCSI drive inside (and there is none connected as it is), so it would be interesting what possible other functionality this drive could be good for to make someone go to this kind of expense. The connection to MIDI In of the arranger likely is not a MIDI output but a MIDI input, probably allowing "floppy changes" to be initiated by a MIDI sequencer via commands that the arranger itself ignores. I'll likely end up replacing this by a Gotek. Slightly less versatile since it doesn't contain an actual floppy drive as well, but convenient enough. Without a SCSI drive (and without second floppy) connected, the Megafloppy will likely not be significantly different from a normal 1.44MB drive. But even unused old media for those drives have a very spotty record of working (namely being writeable with new information) for me, so that isn't much of a loss. -- David Kastrup