Hardware programmable timers

[Peter]

Maybe connecting a Raspberry Pi or Pico to the Q68 expansion bus could achieve this, just then got write the SMSQ/E device driver and the Pi code to send data from the GPIO pins attached to the Q68 expansion port to the Pi USB connector.

A directly connected FDC controller as Dave suggested would certainly be easier.

But it is only 8 but transfers, might be slow?

Easily fast enough for floppy.

[Derek_Stewart]

Hi

Floppy Disks were a great enhancement to the QL in 1990s with a Trim card and 4 Double Density drives, then the Gold Card and Super Gold card gave access to High Density disks made the QL an excellent computer.

But over 30 years on, a 1.44Mb or 3.2Mb disk has some limitations on size and access.

I mentioned a USB Floppy just an idea on what to connect the Q68 Expansion port.

Maybe a RPI 2W could have WIFI implemented on the Q68, but the Q68 has Ethernet, QL NETwok access to other QL, QXL and QL emulators via QLUB and the Spectrum Next QL Joy2Net adapter.

Much faster as easy to setup than floppy disks.