18 Nov
2007
18 Nov
'07
3:24 p.m.
On 18 Nov 2007 at 14:32, M H Stein wrote:
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...
Micropolis floppy drives were very well-made. I wish that modern
drives could be as well-built. All of mine are still operational.
North Star, on the other hand, did some very oddball things with
their kits. Such as supplying TO-99 ICs when they couldn't get the
DIP-8 version. ("Just bend the leads, okay?").
Cheers,
Chuck