13 Mar
2016
13 Mar
'16
1:12 p.m.
On 03/13/2016 12:38 PM, Jules Richardson wrote:
These 3MB ones were definitely Olivetti - this was
from an ex-Acorn
employee who worked on the drive project. 3MB to 20MB seems a big
jump - but it makes me wonder if they were working with drives that
had three surfaces masked out due to manufacturing defects; one
surface would be 5MB, and going from 3MB per surface in a
pre-production drive to 5MB in
Do you have a part number for the Olivetti drive? I think that taking a
10MB drive and downgrading it to a 3MB one wouldn't be a paying venture.
--Chuck