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So, I tried to log into my Gmail account today, using a new device and WiFi network. It won’t let me. I entered my backup email to restore my main gmail account, and when I entered in the code I received, It STILL wouldn’t let me log in. What happened to the simple ID and password system?
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Day 1 of living without wifi.
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No, no, don't worry, I've done lots worse before, in terms of living without internet. I went to this summer camp when I was in 5th grade, and while there was no wilderness, there was some serious, hard core studying. No form of electronic devices were allowed except for calculators and electric dictionaries. We had to stay there for 3 weeks, and all in all, I liked it. It was a really nice and actually quite famous (within Korea) international middle school. They had great food and clean dorm rooms and everything.
I didn't even have a smarphone until... yesterday. Believe it or not, not every teenager spends all his/her time stuck to their phones.
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I found some people who managed to interface an ATA IDE hard drive with 8 bit computers (one did it for his Z80 based project computer, and there seems to be a lot of people who made an interface for the TRS-80 Color Computer, which is nice, since my computer shares a lot in common with the CoCo.) I don't understand completely how it works yet, but I have a general idea. If I get IDE hard drives working successfully with my computer, I might design a similar interface for a C64 or Apple II.
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Before IDE, there were e.g. ST-506/ST-412 MFM and RLL hard drives using two cables. But that is mostly of historical interest.
But yes, making a homebrew 8-bit computer that uses either the IBM or the original Shugart interface for classic floppy drives might make sense. Would you then implement some known file system, whether you're using some FM/MFM encoding or some GCR encoding?
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Thanks for clarifying everything. Then I suppose I better start studying that Shugart interface... I'm assuming the standard Shugart interface is what all the generic floppy drives use, not any of the variants? Or does it use the IBM style one?
I really want a FAT12 file system with MFM encoding, but as of now I have no clue how floppy drives work, so I have no idea how complicated it would be to make a compatible controller. Or I could just steal the design of a random 8 bit PC floppy controller.
Hm, I did some googling, and there seems to be a cheap floppy controller chip called the PC8477BV-1. I haven't looked at the datasheets yet but I found a picture of one inside an 8 bit ISA floppy controller, so hopefully it'll work in my 8 bit computer.
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You would have to research a little more, but it would seem to me that the majority of all commonly available floppy drives are IBM compatible. I don't know the NEC FDC and how its function affects the external pinout, or if IBM just determined they had a better idea what a drive needs (or changed the interface to steer clear of licensing issues with Shugart).
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Day 3 of designing my 6502 computer... At this point all I'm missing is RS232 and the BIOS.