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X-10 Accelerated floppy drive

Date invented

1996

Invented by

Team: Martin Bodo, Bob Rosenbloom, and two programmers

The X-10 Fastcache Floppy Drive was a floppy disk disk drive that read 3.5" floppies at ten times the speed of a standard floppy drive. It could read an entire floppy disk in about five seconds.[1] The X-10 drive ran at 4x spindle speed and could write or read to both sides of the floppy simultaneously. Whenever the user inserted a disk, the drive would immediately read the entire floppy into its own custom 80188 CPU based proprietary controller card RAM. The drive used motorized ejection so it could sequence and cache writes. The drive was optimized so it could step fast enough to avoid missing tracks improving over the normal slow seek times on a standard floppy drive. The X10 Fastcache Floppy was offered for sale by Corporate Systems Center (CSC). It was priced, in 1996, at US$149 retail and US$100.00 OEM when standard floppy drives retailed at US$50.00. About 1,000 X-10 units were ever made.

"Slow floppies always bugged me. I saw that all the parts of a PC were getting exponentially faster, but not the floppy disk. That was the inspiration for the X-10 project."

Martin Bodo, X-10 designer

References

^ Kim, Eugene Eric. "News & Views". Dr. Dobb's Journal. November 1996. Accessed November 14, 2007.

External links

X-10 Floppy Drive US Patent

Google Groups search result of a copied X-10 writeup.

Martin Bodo' bio

Sr. Engineer Igor Lokhmotov resume

Manufacturer: corpsys.com X-10 Drivers

Categories: Legacy hardware | Floppy disk drives(and so on)