25 Apr
2002
25 Apr
'02
9:59 p.m.
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Richard Erlacher wrote:
Gee ... I've never seen one of those ... and
I've picked up countless Apple
"drives" over the years, hoping to find something useable inside. The best
I've ever gotten has been a box + PSU. If I'd ever run into an Ampro product,
I'd have remembered.
And you WON'T find 'em in regular drives.
This would be specifically the drives that were intended to add MFM
capabilities to non-MFM systems, and therefore needed to have at least an
FDC, and even a microprocessor. The easiest shortcut to do that was to
use a single board computer. I've seen Ampro, Quark, and 2 others. I
also did some trivial disk format consulting for one outfit that was doing
one with an Ampro, although at this point, I can't even remember the name.