Looking inside before you buy etc.

From: rhudson_at_ix.netcom.com <(rhudson_at_ix.netcom.com)>
Date: Tue Jun 13 16:18:01 2000

>Of all the drives I could find in the store, only 3 worked. but now
>Mr.StoreGuy has a pile of "Tested-BAD" drives! (Well good for steppermotors
>anyway)

Ah, but the store owner now had one more thing in the deal, an education,
don't let anybody test your stuff at a fixed price. Its the kind of mistake
easy for a basically honest person to make. OTOH Apple II drives are pretty
hard to break,

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I still have a broken one, can I fix it myself? the only thing I 
know is when I put a diskette in and try to read it it goes rattttatt and gets an error... :^(
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how did you test them? 
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I connected them to my apple II and put in a known good diskette, swapping the diskette to the other drive to verify it was still known good... :^)
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Could it have just been
incompatibility? Thats the second risk, customer tests your stuff
pronounces it bad, but later on it turns out they (generic they, not you)
didn't know beans and the stuff is just fine (which of course you find out
after customer B buys it for parts and retests later).

Received on Tue Jun 13 2000 - 16:18:01 BST