Re: I wonder if it would be complicated to design...

[osgeld <kevin@hackaday.com>]

On Saturday, May 11, 2013 1:27:16 AM UTC-5, Steve Nickolas wrote:
> On Fri, 10 May 2013, osgeld wrote:
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> > so start working on it ... prodos block stuff is much easier than 
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> > dealing with the raw floppy drive signals, a cheap micro that spoke to 
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> > both would be enough
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> That's what I was thinking too.
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> I'm not a hardware person - I'm a software person.  I do occasionally talk 
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> to someone who does a lot of bizarre things with 8051 microcontrollers and 
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> maybe he'd know how to do it but he hasn't been around in a while.
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> -uso.

prodos block support is almost entirely software outside of connecting the correct wires into the correct plugs (gah 8051, horrid turd of a micro outside of its instruction set)