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Re: MFM or GCR...
- Subject: Re: MFM or GCR...
- From: Bill Marcum <bmarcum@iglou.com>
- Date: Sun, 4 May 2003 16:32:12 -0400
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On Sun, 04 May 2003 12:26:54 +0200, Linards Ticmanis
<ticmanis@coli.uni-sb.de> 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.
>
Atari (8-bit computers) used a WD disk controller chip, with a 6507 CPU for
communicating over the serial bus.
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