Apple Floppy Drives (was: More Apple Pimpers)
Here's what you need to do to get reliable results from Apple drives:
> And I am probably a good test of real world abuse to the Apple Drive ][
> drives, as I was just a wee child, and I didn't follow any rules that I
> probably should have. (I always put the disk in the drive, closed it, and
> turned on the computer... I would pull disks out, and replace them while
> the drive was reading or writing, I would power off the computer or reset
> it during read/write, I didn't use dust sleaves, I touched the disk media
> directly, wrote with ball point pens on the disk labels AFTER putting
> them on the disk, I used cheap no name brand bulk disks of any kind, and
> used a hole punch to make them double sided... and at one point, even
> stapled a peice of paper to a disk... and that staple is the ONLY time I
> can think of that I screwed up a disk... two holes and a long dent will
> do that. So I would have to say, the Apple II disk system was pretty
> freakin' stable and reliable to put up with all my abuse)
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