Re: EDD + CARD

[mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon)]

Wayne Stewart replied:

>"Michael J. Mahon" wrote:
> 
>> That would be a very interesting manual...  I have the looseleaf part, but
>> not the main manual.  ;-(
> 
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>
>I'll do a pdf of the manual as soon as I finish the currant projects. 
>I was doing the ProSel 16 manual. I'm taking a break from it to do the 
>RocketChip manual which another A2 user kindly sent me a photocopy of.
>I want to get those two done before I start another pdf.

Excellent, Wayne.

I'd like to compliment you on the great conversions to PDF that you do.
The text recognition really reduces the size and improves the quality,
and you have clearly done a fine job of fixing the recognition errors.

>Here's a small quote from the manual

Interesting.  The authors have apparently developed their own
lexicon for the Disk ][ formats, quite different from the conventional
one (perhaps invented for "Beneath Apple DOS"?).  For example,
their "timing bytes" are usually referred to as "self-sync bytes" (or
"sync bytes", or even "sync nibbles", since they are not data bytes).

I suspect that since there was so little "official" Apple documentation
of the disk recording scheme, many people who reverse-engineered
it simply created their own nomenclature.  This no doubt flourished
in the copy-protection creating and copy-protection defeating
communities.  ;-)

-michael

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