examing disk platters was Re: Microscopes

From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> If you can get a clear image, then the software involved to analyze the flux transitions should be reaily do-able.? Think polar coordinates, incrementing rotation to get the raw flux transition stream of a track, followed by software quite similar to what cat-weasel, disc-ferret, and/or any other flux-transition board uses. C: So in the absence of optical means to disclose flux transitions, will anything else do the trick? In my experience once a disk is rendered unreadable, putting it in another drive or whatever resulted in no difference in results. Why I never obtained a catweasel. And generally (overwhelmingly!) I don't even say "lessee what's on this little disk here" and pull up a directory or whatever. Nuh uh, I go strait to trying to image it.