Re: Write Signal on Disk II Question

["Bryan Parkoff" <nospam@nospam.com>]

> I don't try to build it, I just suggested it.
> And yes, the x86 machine IS much too fast. But if I let it do some
> nonsense calculations, one can slow it down to any speed wanted. So it
> is possible(IMO) to do a much better timing than the original apple ]
> [ with its fixed clock.
> PS: the data to the disk drive is clocked at 250kHz, not 2 MHz.

    If you build USB device and install 14MHz osc chip on it, you can send 
commands through USB cable to control USB device while disk is spinning. 
The USB device can be done itself without any help from 6502 or x86.  All 
bytes can be loaded into RAM buffer and is transferred to PC through USB 
cable.  By the way, it runs at 2 MHz because bit stream is in the process 
through logic state sequencer ROM.  I agree with you that 250K bytes are 
loaded into memory each second.

Bryan Parkoff