19 Dec
2002
19 Dec
'02
10:55 p.m.
> seeing one that had some extra diagnostics and
stuff. And, of course,
> there was the Sorrento Valley Associates board that did MFM in Apple][
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
Ooh, juicy! Where can I get one of those?
It's been a while since I've seen one. They were mostly pushed in the 80s
for being able to connect 8" drives!
If you dig through the archives, your buddy Dick mentioned the SVA board a
few times!
One thing about Apple, they are expensive, but
they're built very well.
Most of their stuff was pretty good. But there were a
few recurrent
problems, specifically including the corners they cut on the disk system,
and the crappy sockets that they used to use.