C'mon guys... Nobody with a Model I and E/I
with disk drives left it
stock without a doubler of some kind...
I did (and still do). I nver even upgraded the data seperator (I had no
trouble _at all_ wiotjh the internal separator of the 1771!).
I was going to upgrade to a double-density controller. It was long after
these had been discontinued, but I ordered (and still have) the service
manual for the Radio Shack doubler. I also consddered makign a M1 that
behaved like an M3, I hacked 48K onto the mainboard of a 'spare' M1, and
got M3 BASIC sort-of running on it. I intended to wire-wrap the extra
cassette interface stuff, interrupts, disk controller and RS232 board...
Why didn't I do it? Simple. I went to a raido rally to see if I could get
any useful bits cheap (like disk drives and PCBs with 179x chips on them)
and bought a complete M3. So I didn't need to hack about and build one.
My M1 stayed as single densisty, I used the M3 for double-desnisty stuff.
And later one I bought asecond-hand M4, which is the machine I use now.
-tony
