Let's develop an open-source media archive standard

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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, ben franchuk wrote:

> Also timing needs to be done too of the media. A laser hole in the disk
> could rely on software timer that is interupted when the floppy disk
> controler gets a I/O error. I know the Color Computer uses software and
> hardware wait instruction to do the dma transfer, and other sneeky
> stuff. Also what about a drum memory where the timeing track needs to
> recorded.

Interesting.  Worth keeping in mind.

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