[cctalk] Re: Greaseweazle part 2

On Sun, Jun 25, 2023 at 8:31 AM r.stricklin via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote: It's a combination of things : I regard the Greaseweazle (or any other similar device) as a tool to help me to do something which I enjoy -- running classic computers. While I am happy to spend time improving my skills at using tools, I do not expect to have to guess at what the designer was doing. I also want to understand what my tools should be doing. Not what they seem to have done in the past. Getting some of my classics running is a big enough ob without having to worry whether or not some missing option in writing the boot disk image to a real disk has caused that disk to be mangled. The more I know to be correct, the better. I can sit down with the Greaseweazle board, the PC, a floppy drive and a logic analyser and probably find some combination of options that produces what look to be sensible signals on the Write Data line. But whether they are sensible signals is a much bigger problem. Yes, I like solving puzzles. But this shouldn't be a puzzle. If I want to solve a puzzle about reading and writing arbitrary disk formats the I'll design my own device to do it. -tony