[Coco] Disk controller summary?

jdaggett at gate.net jdaggett at gate.net
Wed Mar 9 18:46:15 EST 2005


Jim

A pic alone cannot. The internals of a drive controller requires more 
than just digital circuitry. There is a phase lock loop that is used as 
an FM decoder to read the data off the disk. 

james


On 9 Mar 2005 at 14:42, Jim Cox wrote:

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> Has anyone out there in CoCo-land ever played around with 
> the Cat-Weasel(?)  Maybe it's something we should look 
> into.
> 
> Also, couldn't a PIC be used as a drive controller?
> 
> -Jim
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