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Steve Wozniak Talks Disk II
Paleotronic was lucky enough to be given the chance to have a chat with Apple co-founder and engineer-extraordinare Steve Wozniak, who gave us a personal look into the development of the Disk II. I like talking [more...]
And probably, you’ve read some of the common parts, about how I was in a staff meeting and raised my hand and said, “If we have a floppy disk in two weeks, can we show it at CES?” I opened up the data sheets, and I know how you can, if you record data on to a cassette tape, this is how I – how we had our Apple II working, you would record signals that went up and down in voltage, you play tones into a cassette tape, and when you played it back you got the same thing back, and you could count the timing between pulses and decide if its ones or zeroes. So, allowing the twelve caused us a few little analog problems that we worked on (and) had to put in a little corrective part, but boy, that gave us 16 sectors instead of 13 – 16/13 times as much data, by writing programs on the processor, on the host computer (being an Apple II) – it’s software was so involved with the little hardware I’d built (and) with the floppy disk itself, they were just all tied together in my head, it was all one.
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