[Coco] Disk controller summary?

[Jim Cox]

James:

Thanks for the insight.  If the PLL could be replicated, 
then couldn't a PIC be used?  Even though I am a Motorola 
fanatic, I would use a PIC since there are better/cheaper 
developement tools out there.

If the Apple II, Atari, and Commodore groups can still 
produce stuff, we sure as Dell can.

-Jim

On Wed, 09 Mar 2005 18:46:15 -0500
  jdaggett at gate.net wrote:

> Jim

> 

> A pic alone cannot. The internals of a drive controller 

>requires more 

> than just digital circuitry. There is a phase lock loop 

>that is used as 

> an FM decoder to read the data off the disk. 

> 

> james

> 

> 

> On 9 Mar 2005 at 14:42, Jim Cox wrote:

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>From:           	"Jim Cox" <jimcox at miba51.com>

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>> Has anyone out there in CoCo-land ever played around 

>>with 

>> the Cat-Weasel(?)  Maybe it's something we should look 

>> into.

>> 

>> Also, couldn't a PIC be used as a drive controller?

>> 

>> -Jim

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