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Re: Poor-man's Catweasel



sicklittlemonkey wrote:
On Feb 6, 1:05 pm, Alex Freed <alex_n...@mirrow.com> wrote:
Here is how I see it. You connect a standard disk drive and capture raw
data via USB to a PC. A PC program analyzes the data and stores in some
format (TBD) on an SD card on the same board. USB is disconnected,
another 20 pin ribbon cable plugged into a Disk ][ card and a floppy is
emulated.

What you've described is basically a super-SVD, and I like it a lot!

The thing is that the "simple matter of software" on the analysis side
suddenly strays into the domain of powerful modern development
environments and the legion of coders that use them (e.g. me). Sure, I
used to sling 6502 assembly for a living, but track analysis is easier
in Java. ;-)

s/Java/C++/ in my case. The few times that I've tried to get the bits between my toes in Java it's been an unholy pitched battle.