11 Jun
2023
11 Jun
'23
8:21 a.m.
On 2023-06-11 8:44 a.m., Tony Duell via cctalk wrote:
A: the blinking lights.
But more seriously when I started asking about writing images to
Fundamentally,
it seems to me that they're all the same basic hardware,
timing intervals between flux transitions.
So other than the soaftware, what's the difference?
I could make a stupid comment and ask 'what's the difference between a
PDP8, PDP11, PERQ or HP9830?'. Apart from having finite memory, all
are (I believe) equivalent to a Turing machine.
floppy disks, I asked what options were available and
what I'd need.
Apart from the (IMHO) stupid suggestion of a 1990's PC compatible, the
only thing that was mentioned to me was the Greaseweazle. Nobody
pointed me at web sites giving comparisons between the various methods
and devices.
-tony
I would of thought the AMIGA would have a say here,
as it reads a disk track as just a bunch of flux transitions.
Ben.