[cctalk] Re: 8" disk question!

[Will Cooke via cctalk]

> On 09/02/2022 11:05 AM CDT geneb via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, 2 Sep 2022, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
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> > well, 720, not 7K
> No, it was actually some absurdly huge number. It has something to do
> with how the AS hardware & software was working out the RPM of the drive.
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> g.

My "guess" would be measuring/counting the time between index pulses and since 
it got to measure it twice in one revolution, the time between them was, say, 
1/16th or so the normal time.

Will


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