The IMI 7710 34 pin flat cable interface is a variant on the SMD dumb interface
which could be controlled by a UDI (universal disk interface) if someone cared
enough to build an adapter and then program the UDI to deal with IMI's specific
track format and peculiar command/status protocol.
> On Apr 13, 2022, at 9:45 PM, Fred Cisin via cctech
> wrote:
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> On Wed, 13 Apr 2022, Paul Koning wrote:
>> Indeed. Though even that is hard for the more exotic formats, if original
>> controllers are unavailable. How would you read, for example, an IBM 1620
>> or CDC 6600 disk pack,
> On Apr 13, 2022, at 8:12 PM, Fred Cisin via cctech
> wrote:
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> ...
> My mindset is/was still stuck in the disk format conversion realm, of trying
> to get information (hopefully information in the form of files, not just data
> as track images) from alien media.
> And, more often than
> On Apr 13, 2022, at 5:27 PM, Fred Cisin via cctech
> wrote:
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> On Wed, 13 Apr 2022, shad via cctech wrote:
>> The main board should include a large enough array of bidirectional
>> transceivers, possibly with variable voltage, to support as much interfaces
>> as possible, namely at
