14 Nov
2007
14 Nov
'07
11:57 a.m.
Subject: Re: Tarbell is making me insane
From: Gordon JC Pearce <gordonjcp at gjcp.net>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 08:26:55 +0000
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk at
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On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 20:28 -0500, Allison wrote:
I had that a work once it was dust in the drives scaring the disks
after one or two uses.
Reaaon, PC suck air out of the box, where does it come in? Any ways it
can and through the floppy was one path.
Allison
I use a stack (about 200) of written once disks,
they have sales
promo and utility on them and never distributed. Good media
and easily erased.
I bought a box of 500 DSDD floppies from a guy on eBay. They appear to
be new. They seem to be pretty good quality too - the cases are a bit
naff and plasticky but they actually work.
I still don't understand how brand new 1.44M floppies fail after two or
three uses, but the 20-year-old SSDD disks for my Ensoniq Mirage are
still perfectly readable.
Gordon 
15 Nov
15 Nov
8:26 a.m.
On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 06:57 -0500, Allison wrote:
I had that a work once it was dust in the drives
scaring the disks
after one or two uses.
Reaaon, PC suck air out of the box, where does it come in? Any ways it
can and through the floppy was one path.
That is an excellent point - there is no fan in the Mirage (or the
rather newer EPS, or the Emax II, or the ESI-4000 either although the
latter uses HD disks).
Funny thing is that the otherwise-identical SQ80 disk drives apparently
failed a lot more than the ones in Mirages. Well, they're double-sided
but in practice all this means is that it uses the head select line.
Gordon
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