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Re: Hardware musings

Subject: Re: Hardware musings
From: "Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 11:24:59 -0700
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Ed Eastman wrote:

So one more thopught occurs to me... The Catweasel disk controller. Itallows you to utilize a PC drive to read a diskette. Could a universalcapture routine be writtin for it to get proper GCR tracks from an AppleII disk with synch using the index hole as reference?


Yes, if it is possible to seek to half- and quarter-track positions on
a PC drive.

BTW, any index hole scheme will have problems with "flippy" disks.
That would require either another hole in the disk jacket or another
index hole sensor on the drive.

-michael

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