On 05/01/2019 21:16, Mike Stein wrote: > It goes without saying that in the PC world we are restricted to using unmodified standard off-the-shelf disk drives available at the time, I can't find it these days & it may have been chucked out, but I once rescued a 3.5" floppy drive from an olivetti PC that had jumpers for EVERYTHING. It was insane. Not all PC's used twists in the floppy cables. > unlike in the Commodore world where pretty well all drives were customized, incompatible with each other, and in many cases almost completely unobtainable now (like the 100TPI drives that this discussion was about). Everyone phoned up shugart and ordered their floppy drives off the menu, all drives were customized. There were plenty other systems with differently configured drives, but they aren't as memorable as commodore/ibm/apple. > But I'd say that far from 'damaging' the industry as a whole IBM in fact helped to expand the industry; By accident. If they'd known what was coming then I'm sure they'd have made different choices. This is an interesting video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaHtGf4aRLs (Motorola 68000 Oral History Panel) they regret not doing the 68008 earlier. They may have been considered for the PC if they'd been able to compete with the 8088.Received on 2019-01-06 01:00:03
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