Ultimate FDC? (Was: IBM 6360 - Filesystem(ish) info?

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Tue Feb 19 19:00:26 CST 2019


On Tue, 19 Feb 2019, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> As I see it, flux transition hardware COULD be all that is needed for 
> hardware.  Emulation of FDC could be done in software with flux 
> transition hardware.

That should read flux transition plus appropriate control signals for the 
drive.  Seeking tracks, turn on the drives R/W circuitry, etc.
Flux transition ITSELF is just making sense out of the pulses on the 
track.


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