Heatkit 5 1/4 floppies

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_netwiz.net>
Date: Wed Apr 7 23:43:05 1999

>Of course, Apple's orientation toward YOUR data was that nobody really cared
>if you had to punt and hit the reset button just because the FDD wouldn't
>read the floppy it wrote just a few minutes before . . . After all, if you
>were serious, you didn't use an Apple. If you were serious it's for sure
>you had some 8" drives for the data you wanted to keep.

There was a bit of a problem with drive to drive track alignment, but in
general I was so glad to get away from using a cassette to store data on,
it sure "felt" like perfection. People today don't realize that the old
systems used a floppy like present systems use a hard drive, almost all the
time, which is a heck of a lot of wear for a contact media. I remember a
few issues, but no real problems, and with several brands I don't think I
ever had a problem of any kind.
Received on Wed Apr 07 1999 - 23:43:05 BST