19 Dec
2002
19 Dec
'02
10:30 p.m.
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
Well, when I go to boot one up after 10, 20, even 30 years, they still
work 95% of the time.
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seeing one that had some extra diagnostics and stuff.
And, of course,
there was the Sorrento Valley Associated board that did MFM in Apple ][
Ooh, juicy! Where can I get one of those?
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.