7 Nov
2001
7 Nov
'01
8:58 a.m.
see below, plz.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Franchuk" <bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: Apple Floppy Drives (was: More Apple Pimpers)
The manufacturer of the chip was culpable, but, given that without that chip
there wouldn't have been an easy FD interface for quite some time, as its
predecessors where quite unhandy, the industry decided to "live" with the
flaws.
Aside from that, in a significant range of drive types (8") there was a
drive-resident clock-extraction circuit that would work adequately.
<snip
> But they are not useful as very few OS's now days fit on a floppy.
> Ben Franchuk.
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Eric Chomko wrote:
> Allison wrote:
> > General comment,
<snip > 2-
horribly botched controllers (TRS-80 without mods)
Don't forget to put some blame on the Floppy disk chip manufacture as
the internal data separator was unreliable on the most common chip,
but they still sold the chip.