Apologies: this article was supposed to be posted A LONG TIME AGO, but wasn’t due to a technical problem with the site.
If you’re one of the lucky people who own an original SVD, you know what a cool, useful device it is and how well it’s put together. The SVD is easy to use and better yet, it’s open project — Eric Rothfuss generously made all the schematics, parts manifest, assembly instructions and accompanying software freely available to the retro-computing community. Eric also sold kits and assembled units (for the impatient and soldering iron impaired) but unfortunately, he discontinued doing so over a year ago and stated he wouldn’t build any more original SVD units.
So, I was VERY happy to read Eric Rothfuss has returned from his hiatus and is now working on the SVD II! Planned improvements include a USB interface, additional support for more floppy formats (non-Apple), half-track image support and a other features that are of use to other platforms.
If you’d like to have other features considered, now is the time to let Eric know. Hey Eric – how about Macintosh support?