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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.  In some cases, it appeared...

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SX software progress

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MFMSanityCheck

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even first or odd?

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Commands A and B implemented and working

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still giving me trouble

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java client works

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adding more commands

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PC xfer working now, timing in order

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