Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: Mike Stein <mhs.stein_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2019 01:50:48 -0500
Message-ID: <1F18D810B32740B2BC8B4093C3045DB9@310e2>
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From: "smf" <smf@null.net>
To: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2019 12:50 AM
Subject: Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?


> On 04/01/2019 23:07, Mike Stein wrote:
>> Given two daisy-chained drives with the motor on/off signal on pin 16, how would you individually turn each separate motor on or off?
> A jumper of course, it's a PC & so it's full of them. One more won't 
> hurt :-)
>

??

A normal daisy chain cable directly connects all lines, including  the motor on/off line, of the two drives together in parallel; how could a jumper anywhere turn on one motor while leaving the other turned off?
Received on 2019-01-05 09:00:04

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