How does data get organised to be stored or sent serially? Matt Godbolt explains some of the encoding used in old devices like floppy disks.
nb At around 10:45 the illustration is inaccurate - when it show the binary numbers, the binary numbers actually occur at a switch of magnetic flux direction rather than being a result of the direction of the flux.
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This video was filmed and edited by Sean Riley.
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