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 # SFD-700
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+<b>06/11/2023 - The designs in this repository are v1.0 and not suitable to be built. I have made two iterations since this design, v1.2 being stable just requires additional firmware development and can be seen here https://twitter.com/engineerswork1/status/1692268807077663026. This will be pushed to github as a release in due course, please do not invest time with v1.0 other than to study it.</b>
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 A Floppy Disk Interface card for the Sharp MZ series of machines (MZ-80B/MZ-80A/MZ-700/MZ-800/MZ-1500/MZ-2000/MZ-2200).
 
 This project is based on an iconic floppy disk interface card from the 1980's by the Aachen based company, Kersten & Partner GmbH. The company produced two cards,