23 May
1998
23 May
'98
8:44 a.m.
There were several manufacturers who made drives for the Commodore line of
computers. I have two or three examples around here someplace. Chinon is a
name that comes to mind, but I know there were several more as well.
Cliff Gregory
cgregory(a)lrbcg.com
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From: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
To: Cgregory <Cgregory>
Date: Saturday, May 23, 1998 2:34 AM
Subject: Re: Prices to pay for old computers...
Well, if you're alluding to the Disk ][, this was
not an effort by Apple
to be "non-standard", but was basically due to the brilliant hacks of
Steve Wozniak in adding an inexpensive and simple disk controller to the
Apple ][. And as far as aftermarket goes, I can't think of even one drive
that was made to work on any Commodore that wasn't manufactured by
Commodore, but I myself have at least five examples of disk drives made
for the Apple by random no name manufacturers.
Sam Alternate e-mail:
dastar(a)siconic.com
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23 May
23 May
11:47 p.m.
Cliff Gregory wrote:
There were several manufacturers who made drives for the Commodore line of
computers. I have two or three examples around here someplace. Chinon is a
name that comes to mind, but I know there were several more as well.
Chinon was the manufacturer for all of the Amiga 3.5 drives, we used
to replace them with TEAC drives before they went out the door. But
these were usually $15-20k A-2000 systems for Hollywood, possibly
they weren't such a drawback in home systems.
-----Original Message-----
From: classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu <classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu>
To: Cgregory <Cgregory>
Date: Saturday, May 23, 1998 2:34 AM
Subject: Re: Prices to pay for old computers...
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
Well, if you're alluding to the Disk ][, this
was not an effort by Apple
to be "non-standard", but was basically due to the brilliant hacks of
Steve Wozniak in adding an inexpensive and simple disk controller to the
Apple ][. And as far as aftermarket goes, I can't think of even one drive
that was made to work on any Commodore that wasn't manufactured by
Commodore, but I myself have at least five examples of disk drives made
for the Apple by random no name manufacturers.
Sam Alternate e-mail:
dastar(a)siconic.com
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>Ever onward.
>
> September 26 & 27...Vintage Computer Festival 2
> See http://www.siconic.com/vcf for details!
> [Last web page update: 05/11/98]
>
>
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