29 Oct
2012
29 Oct
'12
4:32 p.m.
everytime you formatted a disk it would knock the heads to insure it was placed at track
zero.
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On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 11:35 AM PDT geneb wrote:
On Mon, 29 Oct 2012, Fred Cisin wrote:
some of the copy protection could actually damage
your equipment over
time.
THAT calls for more detail.
Some copy protection methods on the Commodore 1541 drive knocked the head
repeatedly against a hard stop - over time this would knock the head out of alignment.
g.
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