Apple Floppy Drives (was: More Apple Pimpers)

On Tue, 06 Nov 2001 20:52:45 -0500, Craig Landrum wrote: #It wasn't clear to me in your original post that you were #referring to the Apple II diskette drive, but I understand #now. And yeah - the IWM (Incredible Woz Machine) diskette #controller WAS fairly sensitive. I never owned an Apple II, #but heard about them. "I never owned an Apple II, but heard about them." Now THAT is authoritative. Well, I have owned a bunch of them and a room full of Disk IIs. They were and are by far the most reliable disk drive from the early home PC era. TRS-80 drives? I have a beautiful Model 1 setup. But talk about trashing disks! And slow! What about the single board CP/M machines? I have them too. The disk drives on the Osborne were, based on extensive experience, the least reliable ever made. If one drive could read what another had written, it was a gift from God. And with the double density upgrade, it was much worse. Commodore PET drive system. Holy smoke, a whole second computer just to operate the drives, and even then, blecch. And even later, how about the "ingenious" DEC double disk-munching drives, that couldn't format disks? I'll take the Disk II any day. Louis