The DC2N diary-News archive, January 2007
02 Jan 2007
FAT-16 again
Evening: a few changes to the schematic already occurred in the end of December, and a few addictional changes
will occurr again soon. They should assure a good operating condition during years.
In the meantime I decided to insert the basic FAT-16 write support for dump/write operations before the prototypes
are out.
Hopefully, everything should be in place before I leave Italy.
07 Jan 2007
Dump
Morning: the counter now counts while dumping too. I also coded a hard dump feature which is
completely automatic: the process stops once the datassette itself stops.
I tested these new features by importing side B of "Skulls and Crossbones": 99% recognized in TAPClean
with no read error!
Btw, I also improved the TDI F2 scanner in TAPClean which can now accept partial bytes for EOF terminators. It's
still pretty experimental, and I want to add a counterpart in the cleaning routines too, which should rebuild those
terminators even if one bit is corrupted.
Evening: I worked at the schematics thus coming to what may be the final version of the circuit, ready for
being produced. Actually the prototypes are a bit simpler, but the DC2N itself will have a bunch of addictional
components. I worked at the smd version too.
Unfortunately, the tool I use is a limited demo version, so I cannot design the PCB of DC2N by myself.
Many thanks go to Bo and Francis who are giving lots of help with the PCB of the prototype.
DC2N schematics for deployment
27 Jan 2007
Discontinued
Morning: I runned out of money due to dental care fees and due to the payments I did for the agency that
should have helped me to move to UK. I didn't receive any good help to move to UK. I'm forced to delay my
departure also because my illness makes me feel too much bad to accept the conditions I was offered (which do not
match the ones published by the agency before doing the payment).
I'm surrounded by carelessness, inaccuracy, and greed. Thanks to such things support for this project has to be
discontinued starting from now, sorry.
28 Jan 2007
Still alive
Evening: thanks to the persons who believe in me and in DC2N, as Bo, Rob, and my parents, I am able to work
at DC2N for some more time.
Btw, the PCBs for the prototypes were produced and they look great :)
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