I bet NN/AI would be helpful with data recovery - if we can model certain
common failure modes with those old drive heads we could infer what the
data should have been...

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Anders Nelson


On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 1:05 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:

> On 11/12/22 09:41, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote:
>
> >
> > Yeah, the 555 is extremely simple and is well known and is fairly
> > cheap, simple MCUs are simple (and cheap) even if they aren't 100%
> > deterministic like a chip with 20-30 transistors.  There's economic
> > advantage in flexibility.
>
> There's also efficiency in mass-produced numbers.  There are several
> Chinese MCUs that go for less than USD$0.10 in low quantities. I think
> the bottom end a couple of years ago was about USD$0.03.  At that price
> point, you have to wonder if some of that isn't the packaging (tape
> reel) cost.
>
> There are far more MCUs made today than 555s, if that's any indication.
>
> And some of the newest ones feature neural net hardware (e.g. MAX78000).
>  Do that with your 555s!
>
> I, for one, welcome our robot overlords.
>
> --Chuck
>
>
>

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