12 Jan
2014
12 Jan
'14
3:39 p.m.
http://hackaday.com/2014/01/10/a-diskvaccuum-for-obsolete-disk-formats/
"[Jim] has a box of disks for a very old Compucolor II computer, and
with bit rot slowly setting in he figured it might be time to dump all
those disks to a more permanent format. After reviewing the existing
tools to read these disks, he decided to build his own floppy disk
interface that he calls the DiskVaccuum.
"The DiskVaccuum is based on a Papilio Pro FPGA board and a few chips
worth of level conversion. The FPGA is able to read bits and move the
head of the disk with ease, saving everything to the drive of a much
more modern computer."
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