18 Nov
2007
18 Nov
'07
12:40 a.m.
As an aside, IMHO one of the worst mistakes commodore
made was that the
8050 could not at least read the disks of the earlier drives.
But then there might have been a situation like the 4040 and the 1540/1541,
where the gap is enough to let each read the other's floppies but too much to
allow successful writing. There was a lot of cussing about that early on after
a perfectly normal drive would eat a previously good disk because it was
originally written with one drive and then written again to with the other.
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