Disc reader project -- quick status update

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Mon Dec 7 15:36:36 CST 2009


On 7 Dec 2009 at 15:20, Jules Richardson wrote:

> That sounds good. I think various calculations have been pretty much
> done to death over the years, but do you anticipate 16MHz being
> enough, or are there likely to be some things that it won't handle? (I
> kept all prior threads on this kind of thing, but they're a bit lost
> amongst the noise right now!)

It handles 1.44M PC floppies just fine.  2.88M may be an issue, but I 
haven't tried those yet (they'll need the 512K sample SRAM).  Data 
transfer is XMODEM right now, as I figure that almost every platform 
with a serial port can handle that some way.

--Chuck




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