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Counting Ones and Zeros

Becoming more confident in the low-level encoding, it is time to look at the reproduction of actual bit streams. Our current knowledge, together with the directory listing, strongly suggests an HP system of the 1980s.  The call for input brought up some more information on possible disk formats. A colleague (in another city) who worked […]

By Denise de Vries, posted in Denise de Vries's Blog

28th Sep 2016  5:37 PM  1975 Reads  No comments

8″ Disk Recovery: Kryoflux and Catweasel

The story so far An 8″ Floppy Disk Challenge Digital Obsolescence: Reproducing Floppy Data Cables Spinning up the first 8″ disk Running more informed experiments in the 8″ world Getting desperate: Down to the Physical Layer After confirming as well as we could that our hardware setup of the 8” drive and the adapters was […]

By Denise de Vries, posted in Denise de Vries's Blog

14th Sep 2016  1:45 PM  5158 Reads  3 Comments

Digital Obsolescence: Reproducing Floppy Data Cables

Over the last 30 years many hardware concepts came out of use. Parallel data cables are not common any more. They got superseded by fast serial connections like e.g. SATA for traditional parallel IDE. One of the longest lasting standards, the 34 pin floppy controller connector, came out of use too. Fortunately, not too long […]

By Dirk von Suchodoletz, posted in Dirk von Suchodoletz's Blog

2nd Sep 2016  2:17 PM  4168 Reads  No comments