16 Jan
2017
16 Jan
'17
4:33 p.m.
On 01/16/2017 02:46 PM, Corey Cohen wrote:
can't easily get in to change caps but it's a
bigger
hassle to remove the board (i.e. The lamp amplifier board
on a persci drive)
PERSCI?? IEEEEeeeeee! Yes, I had one of those. Yes, it
sort of worked, maybe it was the crappy floppies I bought,
but I did buy them new from various media suppliers, like Inmac.
I found it to be relatively flaky, but maybe it was actually
a crummy floppy controller that would write stuff anywhere.
I eventually got a 10 MB Memorex winchester drive and SASI
controller in about 1977 or so, and that was a godsend! It
was absolutely reliable, I never had corrupted files again.
(Oh, it was faster, too, of course.) I had this on an S-100
system.
Jon