4 Jan
2017
4 Jan
'17
3:55 a.m.
On Tue, 3 Jan 2017, Paul Koning wrote:
The key questions for reconstructing such a device is
what the
modulation scheme is, and the pulse pattern. There might be marker
pulses for sector start, for example, or that might just be derived from
a counter in the controller.
It's in the maintenance manual. There is one flux change for a one bit,
and a flux change to the opposite direction for a zero bit.
All timing is derived from the timing tracks S1..S3. The magic box to
reconstruct these timing tracks must be synchronized to the base clock
coming from the drum (137 kHz on European machines). The base clock is
picked up with a special read head, the clock bits are "engraved" into the
drum cylinder, so no need to write this clock track.
Christian