DiscFerret: First working hardware, firmware and microcode!

[Tony Duell]

> I'd be mildly surprised if some enterprising firm didn't try to 
> record a frame of analog video at 60 fps on an ST412 track.  One rev 
> per frame...

I am told that the action replays on TV were onc erecorded on a special 
hard idsk. One frame per track, fixed heads (so almost instant moving 
from one frame to the next) and analogue FM recording. 

One of the companies that made them (PPL I think) also sold it as a PDP11 
video dispaly peripheral. The special hard disk and a rack of boards (FM 
modulato/demodulator, sync, etc). Connected via a DR11-B interace. I have 
one.

-tnny