7 Feb
2012
7 Feb
'12
7:09 a.m.
Chuck writes about reading OSI disks:
Could be done with a pulse-timer board, such as a
Catweasel pretty
easily.
Yes.
Or a small MCU with its built-in UART could also do
the trick.
Generally not. While the OSI did use an ordinary asynchronous UART for
the FDC data path, it also had additional hardware to do FM encode and
decode, so you can't just use a UART in a microcontroller to read the
data, unless you implement the FM decode in additional hardware.
Eric