USB Universal Floppy Disk controller

[Philip Pemberton]

In message <1110504341.4413.91.camel at weka.localdomain>
          Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> But yep, agreed. I certainly need *something* that can archive / restore
> classic formats to/from modern(-ish!) media.

Shift register + counter + high speed RAM. Could even do it with an FPGA if
you wanted.
Buffering an entire track with 8x oversampling is going to be hellishly
memory intensive though.

>   3) aren't taking any backups at all! :-)

Aaghh! That reminds me - it's a good year since I backed up the HDD on my
machine... [fx: hard drive starts going kaclunk-kaclunk-kaboooom]

Later.
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