[sdiy] Scavenging the electronics graveyard

[Bob Weigel]

Yeah the thought had occurred that the media might have pretty limited 
dynamic potential.  Maybe an old hard disk would work better? :-) -Bob

DrHeqx wrote:

>>> I have always wanted to make some sort of analog delay using a 
>>> floppy disk
>>> drive! Never gotten around to that though...
>>
>>
>> Or something like a Mellotron!
>>
>
> I tried this in the late eighties with an 8" floppy drive and it did 
> not produce good results. Then I tried it again with a 5 1/4" and 
> still things did not really work well at all. I was using all the guts 
> from a cheap tape recorder to do the work. I am sure that there was a 
> problem because the head could not be aligned properly, the media was 
> crap, poor head contact, and it seemed like just a tremendous amount 
> of noise was being picked up. Not to mention that on my prototype the 
> switching from record to play was done manually. Much easier on the 8" 
> drive.
>
> Not sure of the exact details ,but perhaps it could be a digital 
> scheme using the existing head and some software to do the read/write 
> switching.
>
> can this be done on a CDR?
>
>
> heqx
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