Fdd – Diskettes
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The post shares a detailed resource on floppy disk technology, sparking interest in retrocomputing and nostalgia for older computer hardware.
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https://map.grauw.nl/articles/low-level-disk/
https://www.unige.ch/medecine/nouspikel/ti99/disks.htm
https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2021/05/recovering-l...
and my own contribution https://github.com/raszpl/sigrok-disk decoder for viewing floppy/hdd tracks in nice GUI using $5 logic analyzers like https://sigrok.org/wiki/Lcsoft_Mini_Board or https://github.com/gusmanb/logicanalyzer