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Re: MFM or GCR...
- Subject: Re: MFM or GCR...
- From: Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@coli.uni-sb.de>
- Date: Mon, 05 May 2003 08:31:39 +0200
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- Organization: University of Saarland, Computing Center, Germany.
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Bill Marcum wrote:
>>Apple used the computer's main processor to decode, Commodore put a
>>general-purpose CPU into the drive, IBM and most CP/M computers put a
>>custom chip into the drive. Atati I don't know.
>>
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> Atari (8-bit computers) used a WD disk controller chip, with a 6507 CPU for
> communicating over the serial bus.
In that case I guess they used MFM storage.
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Linards Ticmanis
The Master said, "The business of laying on the colors follows the
preparation of the plain ground."