Northstar Horizon - Tarbell

Dave Dunfield wrote: I mentioned Tarbell. I knew Don and used his controller since he was around here in LA and the controllers could be had for a reasonable price. The other alternatives were way more expensive at the time. Of course this can go down the way of how the disks were not formatted properly and the contollers were a real pain to get going, but if you stick with the low density disks, and had the controller fully reved up, they were usable. I can't say bad things from first hand experience with the controllers, since what problems I had Don had fixed, and his company was available nearby to get things fixed. I wan't much of a builder then, so I was lucky in that regard. Many thanks to my friend Frank A. who helped me with testing the conroller and debugging problems, as I did for him. Also to Dick Culberton who was the main fixer of all things Tarbell. Jim