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Q: Was there a special drive, that saved much more than 1.44MB on an HD floppy disk?

TechLordI think that I have once seen an Internet article, which stated, that special drives are capable of making many megabytes of data out of one ordinary MF-2HD floppy disk. But I am unable to find it again. Did such a drive actually exist?

 
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Q: Can the BBC Master co-processor execute a program in the I/O processor's memory?

wizzwizz4Whilst researching the 65C102's memory layout, it occurred to me that, since the I/O processor's memory is mapped to 0xFFFFxxxx, it might be possible to store code there and execute it by setting the co-processor's instruction pointer to a value in that range. Does this work? On which co-proces...

 
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Q: Using VHS/MiniDV/CompactCassette as digital data storage?

TechLordHow can VHS cassettes. MiniDV cassettes. Compact audio cassettes be used as digital data storage? Can the error correction strength be adjusted? TechNostalgia


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