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...
-- 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 > > >
