Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: silverdr_at_wfmh.org.pl
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 18:18:19 +0100
Message-Id: <95A3876B-AAB3-45DE-AF31-B0A6A480412F@wfmh.org.pl>
> On 2019-01-08, at 18:00, Mike Stein <mhs.stein@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> A question for those folks who think that the twisted cable was a hardware-crippling hack by incompetent "engineers":

You wanted to end this thread, didn't you? ;-)

BTW - I wrote about CRippled hardware like CR(ippled), which was supposed to meant that the Cost Reduced hardware, like floppy drives which didn't even have a way to set the DS line the drive should respond to was a result of the hack in question. I hope you agree that if nobody did the hack in the first place, such hardware would have a tougher way to the market, if any.

> IDE drives & cables essentially did the same thing, modifying the cable by cutting one wire so that CS could be implemented.
> 
> Is that the same thing? Is it really unacceptable to use a modified cable in order to be able to just plug in a drive anywhere without having to worry about Master/Slave jumpers?

Why? No, it isn't. It is a good extension, which allows us to choose whether we want to use position dependent or position independent configuration. In addition it doesn't halve the number of drives you can put on the cable. Thus - it's a very welcome addition that doesn't remove any of the existing possibilities. Good job.

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