4 Mar
2010
4 Mar
'10
7 p.m.
Nope, not gonna take it back.
It is extremely unscientific to stick to a statement when you have clear
evidence to the contrary.
In my circle of users in Brooklyn, EVERYBODY with a
Model I had a
doubler if they had disk drives. EVERYBODY.
This is a ninternational list. I qould guess there are many people here
(including mysef) who have never been to Brooklyn.
I'm sure there are people on this list who didn't. Because you guys
can be pretty stubborn, ornery and non-standard.
But anyone with a Model I who didn't get a doubler locked themselves
out of lots of software, halved the storage capacity of their system,
I cna think of many things that were M3-only. But I can't think of one
M1 title that required double-density disks.
and had lots of trouble reading disks.
This is soemthing I can't explain. I have a 'stock' M1 EI, using the
internal data separator of the 1771. I never had _any_ problems with it.
It read disks with no isseus at all. I had many more problems with the M3
(first of all that infernal tapewire cable between the CPU board and the
disk controller board, and in fact I had to replace the 1793 chip in the
M3 at least once). Oh well...
As I said, I was seriously ocnsidering a Doubler, but finding an M3 at a
low price removed the need for it...
-tony