Re: Anyone have any info on the PEDISK II floppy controller?

From: Steve Gray <sjgray_at_rogers.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 07:36:12 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <1372948572.21309.YahooMailNeo@web161304.mail.bf1.yahoo.com>
Related...I found something for the C64 called the Quikdisk, also by the makers of the PEDISK. 
http://www.megalextoria.com/usenet-archive/news013f2/b27/net/micro/00007383.html
Perhaps it might be helpful if we could find one of these as well.
 
Steve


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> From: Mike Naberezny <mike@naberezny.com>
>To: cbm-hackers@musoftware.de 
>Sent: Wednesday, July 3, 2013 4:50:42 PM
>Subject: Re: Anyone have any info on the PEDISK II floppy controller?
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>Hi Ethan,
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>On 7/1/13 1:06 PM, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>> If you want some help with reverse-engineering the schematic, I
>> could probably help there.  Your bare-board pics are excellent for
>> that!
>
>If you would like to work on it, your help would be welcome.  I plan to draw 
>the schematic but it may be some time before I get to it.
>
>I reassembled the board and the computer no longer crashes.  When it is 
>activated with SYS 59904, the ROM displays the banner and attempts to boot the 
>disk.  I have a disk but it is in poor condition.  I have not been able to try 
>it yet because I need to repair the cables first.
>
>Lee Davison did an initial disassembly of the ROM that is now linked from my 
>page.  I have been working on it also.  The ROM contains code to read/write 
>sectors and possibly the LOAD command.  The remaining functions are in RAM.
>
>Regards,
>Mike
>
>-- 
>Mike Naberezny (mike@naberezny.com) http://6502.org/
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