Take a look at the Applesauce. It hooks up to a lot of different floppy drives and records and decodes the flux. Version2 of the hardware is being sourced and should be available in a few months.
Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 27, 2024, at 14:32, Martin Bishop via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > >> >>> I would love to see a PDP-8 with 1/2 size flip chips using today's smaller >>> logic. > > Can you get the logic ? Especially the bus / backplane driving parts. > > https://retrocmp.com/projects/qbone/326-qbone-unibone-alternative-bus-drivers > Q-bus transceivers (DS8641 being a classic) are unobtainium in commercial > qtys, the substitutes listed seem little more available > Omnibus parts ... > > https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/pic16f13145 > An 8..28 pin microcontroller with 32 (4-1) LUTs on 1.8 - 5 V supply, might > control output transistors for roll your own bus transceivers > Small, cheap and perhaps sufficiently fast / flexible; also, perhaps > competition for the 22V10 ? > > Martin > >
