18 Nov
2007
18 Nov
'07
11:32 a.m.
---------Original Message:
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 21:21:22 -0800 (PST)
From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
Subject: Re: "intelligent" disk drives
>As an aside, IMHO one of the worst mistakes
commodore made was that the
>8050 could not at least read the disks of the earlier drives.
On Sat, 17 Nov 2007, M H Stein wrote:
Sort of unavoidable because to get the 500MB/side they
went to 100TPI drives.
Well, 96tpi drives would give pretty much the same capacity as 100tpi
ones, with only "half" as many incompatabilities.
'course, if they HAD gotten 500MB/side (v 400-500KB), then it would have
been well worth it.
--
Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
---------Reply:
Someone actually reads my drivel?
Another dent in my forehead ;-) My fingers are typing 500K and the brain,
such as it is, is thinking 1/2MB...
Yeah, tell me about 100TPI; a couple of us with Vector Graphics are cursing
the day Micropolis came up with those; to top it off, they used hard sector
diskettes (Vector - the 8050 didn't care) so the disks are almost as scarce
as the drives...
m