IMSAI 8080

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Thu Jun 25 09:27:08 1998

> Remeber you'd have to make some changes to the tracking servo to allow the
> computer to go to a particular block on the disk.

I was thinking of simply reading the whole disk, as if you were going to
transfer its contents onto a more modern media. If it does get to the
point that CD-ROM drives in working condition are indeed rare things, it
is time to move to another format.

> Now that CD players are becoming cheap, it's getting increasingly hard to
> get real service data on them. And that's what you'd need to modify one
> into a CD-ROM drive.

The servo systems in those things are dead stupid, and should not really
cause many problems reverse engineering those bits.
 
William Donzelli
william_at_ans.net
Received on Thu Jun 25 1998 - 09:27:08 BST