Re: Hardware musings

[russotto@grace.speakeasy.net (Matthew Russotto)]

In article <453730db$0$24649$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au>,
Mark McDougall  <markm@vl.com.au> wrote:

>To go to the extremes of capturing the analogue data on the disk would
>require not only, as mjd noted, hardware hacks and more sophisticated
>software, but also a software 'emulation' right down to the analogue
>behaviour of the disk controller/drive in order to be able to read (and
>hence duplicate) the preserved images.

You could do that, but it's probably not actually necessary.  Once you
have your analog image, you can probably convert it a bit-stream image
with quarter tracking, sync information, and "holes".
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