7 Apr
1999
7 Apr
'99
11:43 p.m.
Of course, Apple's orientation toward YOUR data was
that nobody really cared
if you had to punt and hit the reset button just because the FDD wouldn't
read the floppy it wrote just a few minutes before . . . After all, if you
were serious, you didn't use an Apple. If you were serious it's for sure
you had some 8" drives for the data you wanted to keep.
There was a bit of a problem with drive to drive track alignment, but in
general I was so glad to get away from using a cassette to store data on,
it sure "felt" like perfection. People today don't realize that the old
systems used a floppy like present systems use a hard drive, almost all the
time, which is a heck of a lot of wear for a contact media. I remember a
few issues, but no real problems, and with several brands I don't think I
ever had a problem of any kind.