> On Feb 5, 9:40 pm, Steven Hirsch  wrote:
>> Has anyone seen this?
>>
>> http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=40959
>>
>> Basically it's a universal floppy-disk decoder/writer hosted on an Atmel
>> prototype board.  Fascinating (to me, anyway) thread on
development and bringup.
>>
>> Just waiting for an Apple 2 personality!

Good timing. Just when I was thinking of using the AVR for a somewhat 
similar purpose :)

This project is very interesting. It should be trivial to use it for 
reading Apple disks, both 5.25" and 3.5" with small changes to the 
existing software. If it captures *all* the flux changes with good 
resolution, it's a "simple matter of software" to use it for capturing
data from floppies. At the same time there are enough pins left to
interface to a Disk ][ card and emulate an Apple floppy.

Here is how I see it. You connect a standard disk drive and capture raw
data via USB to a PC. A PC program analyzes the data and stores in some
format (TBD) on an SD card on the same board. USB is disconnected, 
another 20 pin ribbon cable plugged into a Disk ][ card and a floppy is
emulated.

-Alex.
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