11 Jun
2010
11 Jun
'10
3:38 p.m.
On 11 Jun 2010 at 23:08, Philip Pemberton wrote:
I seem to recall there being a (WD?) application note
or datasheet
that basically said one of the WD controller chips' built-in data
separators shouldn't be used because it wasn't reliable... I wish I
could find a reference for that.. :)
WD1771 application note, under "Data Seperation"(sic) "...and (sic)
external data seperator (sic) is recommended." Actually, the number
of (sics) in that AN probably sets some sort of record.
And yet, I've run across several systems (wasn't the TRS-80 Mod I one
of them?) that blithely ignored this recommendation.
--Chuck