On Tue, 6 Nov 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
> It did so, however, at the cost that the resulting subsystem was a
> mite prone to hiccup, which it still is.
False.
> It was never fixed, since there really isn't a way to fix it.
Or because there was nothing to "fix". False. Next...
> It's fragile, and the only way to live with that is to recognize the
> vulnerabilities, and to work around them, which is clearly possible.
False.
> In 1981, the PC was released, and that was the death knell for
> computers like the Apple. Even so, they hung on for several years.
> Even devoted Apple][ fans, though, have, for the most part, sobered up
> enough since the '80's to recognize that the Apple floppy disk
> subsystem wasn't as solid as one might have hoped.
False. One individual's beliefs do not reality make. Your experiences
were not shared by even one one-hundreth of one-tenth of one percent of
the total of Apple ][ users, evidenced by the fact that MILLIONS of Apple
disk drives (and clones) were produced. Obviosuly, then, it was
realiable.
Your experiences, however, are not.
> In the 8-9 years that I used 8" drives as my main medium for data
> interchange, I had perhaps two or three diskette failures that I
> remember, and I don' think many others had more trouble than I did.
> That is not what I read and heard about the Apple disk subsystem.
References? ISBN or volume and issue number and page number please.
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