Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: Gerrit Heitsch <*gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de*> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 21:11:49 +0100 Message-ID: <946ad1bc-0863-5699-2480-aaf454f2ef49@laosinh.s.bawue.de> · gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de

On 1/10/19 5:35 PM, Mike Stein wrote:
> I definitely don't want to revive/continue the floppy cable argument, but I'm really curious whether there is another way.
> 
> It's 1980, you're an IBM engineer in Boca Raton and your boss comes over to your desk, drops a pair of Tandon TM-100s on it and says, "I've got a challenge for you: we need a way to individually control the drive motors on these drives without modifying the drives; can you do it?"
> 
> What would you do/say?

The first question would be 'Why do you think you need to do that?' 
Quite often people who ask for a certain feature don't have all the 
facts or started from the wrong premises.

  Gerrit