hard-sector 5 1/4 disk

My point was that Sellam wasn't old enough to be earning his living with the Apple ][ back in the very early '80's. I'm sure Sellam has played with his Apples enough to know a great deal about them by now, but the sorts of remarks he's made just don't line up with the magazine articles about those very issues that were published back in the '80's. People had problems with the Apple][ disk subsystem, but not terrible ones. However, it's stretching things a bit to suggest they were as dependable as the 8" units we used with CP/M boxes day in and day out. The guys on whose experience I've relied for guidance with respect to the issues surrounding use of the Apple][ did earn their living with the Apple, among other systems, and of those who were Apple "heavies" I listened more to the ones who were able to make the payments on late model German cars more that I listened to the guys who were still driving the '67 Chevy their Dad had given them when they graduated from high school. For me, a car isn't something I dream about. I just gave my Maxima to my son, who drives a lot more than I do, and I'm driving a Chevy that's old but has <50K miles on it in spite of its 14 years. Of course I only drive about 2500 miles a year since I live pretty close to everywhere I want to go. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Allain" &lt;allain(a)panix.com&gt; To: &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt; Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2001 11:01 AM Subject: Re: hard-sector 5 1/4 disk