The idea was that I could write a program to run on my box that takes a mac disk image, and serves it to a real mac via the parallel port through the mac's floppy port. This would be useful for booting macs with bad drives, or macs with owners with no way to write a system disk. Perhaps one could even create a bootable iso that boots a mac... Anyway...

I started looking for infomation on the floppy port, and have found little. The IWM seems fairly undocumented. Looking at mini vMac which emulates hardware, I found the quote "Mini vMac emulates the hardware (with the exception of the floppy drive)." which of course begs the question "why?"

I figured someone here might have enough sense to know how likey such a project is to be succesful (ignoring the human element of motivation please).

Any thoughts or resources out there to help? Opinions?