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Soft - Preserving a floppy disk with a logic analyzer and a serial cable

Introduction Being involved with retro computers, I have a few floppy disks (of the 3.5-inch variety) that I would like to preserve as faithfully as possible. Of course, I know there are dedicated devices for doing that, such as the Kryoflux or the SuperCard Pro. But it occurred to me that I already own the required hardware to capture the low-level data from a floppy disk: my Saleae Logic 8 logic analyzer. Side note: While I can only highly recommend the Saleae analyzers for their features and ...

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