12 Jun
2013
12 Jun
'13
10:59 a.m.
Of course! Just throwing a slightly whimsical twist
out there on
the 8-bit micro idea. I myself don't have any kind of RK05 (I
only recently got an RL02 and don't have any kind of controller or
media for that, let alone an RK05 and associated parts, so it's
entirely an academic suggestion). Besides, implementing it with
a 6502 is *cute*, but to make it anywhere NEAR period-appropriate
(and it would obviously have to be a retrofit, since the 6502 was
introduced in 1975), you'd have to rely on building it from pulls,
which is silly when you can buy an AVR new now and for years to
come.
I prefer to modify my classic computers using devices/technology that is
similar ot the rest of the machine, or that in the very least would have
been aroudn when the machien was in active use. In this case, I guess
using an early 8 bit microprocessor is contemporary with the machine
(there were plenty of RK05s in use in 1975), but I would prefer to do it
with TTL devices only. I shouldn't be too hard, given the quite good
stability of the RK05 spindle speed.
-tony