Apple Floppy Drives (was: More Apple Pimpers)

From: Eric Dittman <dittman_at_dittman.net>
Date: Wed Nov 7 11:22:33 2001

> There were several "fixes" provided by third-party vendors that got around the
> very weak clock extraction logic used by the Model 1. Several of them addressed
> other weaknesses in the TRS-80 architecture, but the FD interface seems to have
> been the most commonly addressed problem.
>
> These hardware patches came along enough later that they're not germane to the
> current discussion of the Apple][ disk system, however...

I seem to remember the add-on data separators came out very soon after the release
of the expansion interface. The double density daughterboards came out a little
later.
-- 
Eric Dittman
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Received on Wed Nov 07 2001 - 11:22:33 GMT

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