Reading various format 5.25" floppies on a PC

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon Jun 16 17:03:33 2003

> The PC hardware is so crude and simple that even with MY soldering skills,
> it is possible to do mods such as for single density. The Mac hardware is
> much more integrated, and is full of surface mout chips, etc. that I'm not
> skilled enough to work with.

Depends on the PC and the Mac :-). Modern PCs seem to be stuffed full of
SMD (and worse still BGA) chips. The disk controller is probably part of
some large ASIC on the motherboard.

Conversetly, the Mac+ has no SMD chips other than in the floppy drive AFAIK.

-tony
Received on Mon Jun 16 2003 - 17:03:33 BST