17 Oct
2007
17 Oct
'07
6:49 p.m.
On Wed, 17 Oct 2007, Grant Stockly wrote:
There are 44 pin QFP packages available to control 4
drives, 8" to
3.5". $7.50 a piece. To me its not even worth the time to do a
google search for disk drive cores. Free usually means buggy and
YMMV any way... ; )
Hmm, I suppose that chip would do the trick for native block-access.
Still, an FPGA will be required to support "weird" formats like Commodore
older Macintosh.
I'm making a 3.5" disk drive card for the
Altair.
Nifty! When can we expect the serial and cassette tape cards?
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David Griffith
dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu
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