3 Jun
2004
3 Jun
'04
1:18 p.m.
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Tom Jennings wrote:
In the day quality and specs were such that it was
foolish to use the
wrong media. Today you can pull that stuff. Using DD as SD should be OK,
but the converse will work "most" of the time, which is useless unless
you're just playing.
There used to be a popular folk myth that all single sided diskettes
actually double sided ones that had failed testing on one side.
I find it hard to believe that any company could be profitable
with THAT high a failure rate!
We used to pay $80 for a box of DSDD Dysan 8"
floppies and align the
disk drives every year with a Dysan alignment diskette and an
oscilloscope. That's what it took for repeatable reliability. It sucked.
... and yet nobody was buying 8" Dysan alignment diskettes and new
shrinkwrapped Dysan floppies at $1 per diskette at VCF! My biggest
market segment was teachers who each wanted ONE diskette to wave in
the air when talking to classes about the days of dinosaurs.
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com