Re: Raspberry Pi as a storage device for a PET.
Reading through the project details it seems to me that the originator has done a lot of testing, or a lot of testing has been done for him by friendly PET owners on a number of different PETs - my angle would tend to be that if it isn't broken, don't fix it. Just try it the way it is.
The only thing I could wish for is, if you were going to connect something as complex and powerful as a Pi, it might as well be emulating the FDD (ie, functionally equivalent to the SD2PET) rather than the datasette as that would seem like a better way to use one.
The Pi would then have to be interfaced to the IEEE 488 port, and that would present its own complications. It might be worth looking around to see if someone has already done it.
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