Someone on sci.electronics.design mentioned the following article: This is a Floppy Disk Data Separator Design Guide for DP8473 which is a floppy disk controller like the infamous NEC 765 controller. It’s a...
Archive - 2008
first day back
You know, I always hate the “first day back” working on a project. Things always seem to get screwed up between the time I last worked on a project, and that day. Even if nothing has changed. Or so I say...
inital results on error correction
While I have yet to actually implement the full-scale error correction as I want to, I did some manual tests today. I basically took a track that I was erroring out on, and swapped in 1-bit away values for the bad bytes...
error correction using hamming distances
I’ve been thinking for quite some time about error correction. About using the structure of the MFM to our advantage. I’ve come up with something although I haven’t implemented the idea yet. As you...
a little code review today
While my send UART code has been pretty solid for some time, I’ve always though my receive uart code needed doublechecked and worked on. I spent some time today just going through the code, graphing out some...
further development on the AFP
I’m about to bring a new member of my family into this world. As a new proud parent, I’m completely unsure about what this means in terms of time, dedication, and so on. I’m sure I’ll have less...
