Good description of Apple ][ disk controller
Eric J Korpela
korpela at gmail.com
Fri Mar 25 13:19:52 CST 2005
On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:37:08 -0800 (PST), Eric Smith <eric at brouhaha.com> wrote:
> Eric wrote:
> > Either that or they read the patent application.... In the patent,
> > Woz describes the (13 sector) nybble format as being interleaved data
> > and clock bits, with the clock bits all set to 1.
>
> The patent does not describe the 13-sector format at all!!! It only
> describes an 11-sector non-GCR format that was never used by any software
> Apple actually publicly released.
That's what I get for relying on memory. My bad.
Eric
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