Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

Den Thu, 10 Jan 2019 21:11:49 +0100 skrev Gerrit Heitsch
<gerrit@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.

At the time, IBM would had been more than experienced re wear level on
mechanical components in business equipment, and that would most likely
had told them to control the motors separately.

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