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From "John D. Baker" <jdbaker@consolidated.net>
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Subject Re: Back after almost 30 years?
Date Sat, 19 Jul 2025 20:49:20 -0500
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On Sat, 19 Jul 2025, John D. Baker wrote:

> I now have it booting from the hard disk.  I've read the work Armin
> Diehl did with a VHDL implementation of GIDE on his Prof80 ECB system
> and liked it enough that I'm trying to transition my naive disk-handling
> to his partitioning scheme.

I should mention that for anyone interested, it is currently available
at "ardiehl.de".  Alas, the published email address on the site is no-
longer valid.

After seeing what little there is on the Davidge machines (only photos
and ROM images on bitsavers and only a couple of videos on YouTube of
the "1538A.BIN" ROM image being executed under MAME), I think I may have
the most complete, working Davidge DSB-4/6 in the world right now,
so I'm hoping to put things together to preserve the knowledge.

(There's a LOT of similarity between the DSB-4/6 implementation and the
CCS 2422/2810 FDC/CPU combination.  Even the floppy formats are the
same although for 3.5/5.25 DD, I'm using all 80-track hardware rather
than 35 or 40 tracks.)

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Back after almost 30 years? "John D. Baker" <jdbaker@spike.technoskunk.fur> - 2025-07-19 20:08 -0500
  Re: Back after almost 30 years? "John D. Baker" <jdbaker@consolidated.net> - 2025-07-19 20:49 -0500
  Re: Back after almost 30 years? ECNeilson <eric@neilsonhart.com> - 2025-07-25 15:01 -0500
    Re: Back after almost 30 years? "John D. Baker" <jdbaker@consolidated.net> - 2025-07-25 15:49 -0500
      Re: Back after almost 30 years? ECNeilson <eric@neilsonhart.com> - 2025-07-25 19:36 -0500
        Re: Back after almost 30 years? Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> - 2025-07-31 10:19 -0400
  Re: Back after almost 30 years? ECNeilson <eric@neilsonhart.com> - 2025-07-25 15:07 -0500
  Re: Back after almost 30 years? ECNeilson <eric@neilsonhart.com> - 2025-07-25 15:08 -0500
  Re: Back after almost 30 years? Steven Hirsch <snhirsch@gmail.com> - 2025-07-31 10:17 -0400

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