9 Nov
2008
9 Nov
'08
7:01 p.m.
Yeah, we've been over that, and were considering getting some of the
memory interface logic from the computer, but it seems the backplanes
varied widely,
so using the original logic might be harder than rolling our own.
On Nov 9, 2008, at 8:54 PM, Jim Battle wrote:
Daniel Seagraves wrote:
Those of you with experience reading cores, we
need your help in
reading out a LVDC core stack.
If successful, this will likely be the only example of the LVDC
flight software left in existence.
Please see
http://www.ibiblio.org/mscorbit/mscforum/index.php?topic=1891.0
That could be very tricky if you attempt to read it out -- reading
core is destructive, so if rig up an interface and you don't capture
the data the first time, you might not get a second chance.
People on this list have talked about some film that changes
polarization or color or something in the presence of magnetic fields.
Core is orders of magnitude larger than the bit domains of floppy
disks, so using such a film to read out the core state
non-destructively seems like a good idea.
I haven't read the thread linked to above, so maybe this is already
under consideration.