Steven Hirsch wrote:
>>
>> After posting I remembered that the Apple 3.5" disks were
"special".
>> AFAIK they use variable speed to using a PC drive to read/write Apple
>> 3.5" disks is at least difficult.
> 
> Wouldn't it be possible to cleverly emulate the variable speed zones in 
> software by playing with the data rate?  

I thought about it - that's why I said "at least difficult" rather than
impossible. In fact reading may not be too hard, but writing is a 
different story.
Since the device requires almost no hardware and all the programming is 
done on the AVR side, it is easy to experiment. I mean the prototype 
doesn't even need to be connected to an Apple - just a serial channel to 
a PC or a Linux box.

-Alex.
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