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- From: scm@mfltd.co.uk (Shaun C. Murray)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga WALKER (new slot-box)
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 14:16:44 GMT
- Organization: Micro Focus, Newbury UK
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- In article <170396t1833@tharkad.aball.de>, fricke@tharkad.aball.de says...
- >
- >If it cannot do 1.76MB, it is unlikely that it will do 880 Kb either.
- >The problem of track read vs. sector read remains. I also wonder how a
- >stock PC floppy controller will be able to do the 'custom' Amiga MFM
- >encoding scheme.
-
- The current hardware does 880Kb just fine and since that is still in the
- Walker, problem solved. The PC SuperIO chip can do the 144Mb. The two in combo
- is fine by me.
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