13 Oct
2009
13 Oct
'09
10:20 a.m.
Al writes:
Brian Lanning wrote:
Everybody has to draw boundaries over what they're gonna try to do, and what they not
try to do.
I think it is reasonable for the Catweasel people to say they only log transitions on the
floppy and that they don't try to do anything else.
Other people can pick up where their expertise comes in.
Details of file formats of every obsolete 12-bit OS is not something I would trust the
Catweasel people to do in fact.
I know of floppy disk formats that in fact are not in fact fixed sector size, they are
more like a cassette tape filesystem where sectors vary in length as necessary.
Remember Al, that's why we go for image files as the actual archive with everything
else just an interpretation or display.
As Tom Lehrer wrote:
"once the rockets are up
who cares where they come down
that's not my department,
says Wernher von Braun"
Tim.
He says that all of the floppy file formats just
end up being a series of
blocks one after another so that all you need to know is the block size and
the number of sectors per track.
I didn't know if I should laugh or cry when I
read that sentence. It certainly
explains why software support from the vendor for the board is so poor if he
seriously believes that.