Floppy Drives - How did they work?

Let's look at how old-fashioned floppy disc drives worked - from the physical hardware to the electronic interface, and maybe see if we can read and write some data!

00:00 Intro
00:53 Minifloppy discs, drives, and Shugart
04:17 Floppy disc anatomy
06:46 Floppy drive components
16:30 The Shugart bus interface
23:05 Experimenting with the bus signals
28:38 Hooking up an oscilloscope
31:40 Reading from the disc
39:15 FM encoding
44:41 Writing to the disc
51:20 Next steps