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A related project that has been going through an amazing amount of progress is the Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller. HN Thread here: https://news.ycombinator.
by joezydeco 8y ago
A related project that has been going through an amazing amount of progress is the Applesauce Floppy Disk Controller.
HN Thread here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17256709 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17256709
IMO the coolest part is the widget they wrote to visualize the raw magnetic flux on the floppy.
Example image: https://twitter.com/a2_4am/status/1026110390491643904 https://twitter.com/a2_4am/status/1026110390491643904
- dzdt 8y agoI love seeing two dimensional images of disk data. One thing it makes clear is how far ahead today's computers are, where we can easily display at many pixels per bit an image containing all of the data of a multiple-loading LARGE program from the 1980's.
- molticrystal 8y agoWhile I am sure they released plenty of images on the project's site, as an aside if you change the end of a twitter image url to ":orig", you'll get the original unresized image. In this case: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dj153frUUAEWAgx.png:orig https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dj153frUUAEWAgx.png:orig Really helps you visualize the details of the data, it is really amazing, along the lines of those who look at nand gates and similar things to read decapped roms and silicon circuits. https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RqmN7_KgbFc/maxresdefault.jpg https://i.ytimg.com/vi/RqmN7_KgbFc/maxresdefault.jpg