FujiNet

Bought a new gadget for the IIc(s), a FujiNet adapter. I have no insight into the origin of the appellation, but I now have some experience with the device itself. One of the challenges of retro-computing is media management. Back in the day, there was a robust retail marketplace that distributed applications on physical media, usually 5.25" floppy disks, sometimes cassette tapes. Today, the market for physical media is far more constrained, chiefly on eBay, forum classifieds and sometimes shopgoodwill.com. An enormous amount of old software has been preserved in the form of disk images available at archive.org and at other sites. This is a huge resource for emulators, but there's a barrier between a digital disk image, and the disk drive attached to most old computers. There are a variety of solutions, one of which is to emulate the drive itself in modern hardware. One of the best-known is the Floppy Emu, from Big Mess o' Wires, heretofore my preferred method of using disk images…