Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: Jim Brain <brain_at_jbrain.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:30:49 -0600
Message-ID: <d8a9871c-8685-a091-d8d3-a7c09000f956@jbrain.com>
On 1/10/2019 2:11 PM, Gerrit Heitsch wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
Not that it matters, but you're just stalling...

Others have already noted, and Internet resources agree, the decision 
was made to minimize assembly complexity. No need to worry about drive 
affinity on the assembly floor.

Thus, the decision has been made, no jumpering on drives.  How would one 
address the situation?

JIm

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Received on 2019-01-10 23:01:41

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