Saturday, July 25, 2020 •
If there are problems with your hardware, like previously working hardware suddenly stops working after a kernel upgrade, then it is necessary to figure out, what’s the problem. One step towards this is, to build your own linux kernel.
Sunday, June 28, 2020 •
This is the continuation of Measuring Floppy Drive rotation speed. We need a better machine program to measure the exact duration between two index hole detections. The plan is, that we first wait, until the index is detection, then start to count until the index is detected again.
Friday, June 12, 2020 •
While reading the documentation about reading floppy disks with basic, I’ve found another interesting sample program which I want to share here.
Sunday, May 17, 2020 •
The latest version of Windows 10 installation media is very big: Version 1909 uses a 5.1g ISO image. You could burn it onto a DVD, but you need a dual layer (single layer is only 4.7g). But you can also put the stuff simply on a USB stick.
Sunday, May 3, 2020 •
The alphatronic PC uses 5.25” floppy disks to store programs. This post is about some (my) early insights about the different floppy formats.
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