Osborne floppy drives (was Apple Floppy Drives)

From: Feldman, Robert <Robert_Feldman_at_jdedwards.com>
Date: Fri Nov 9 14:58:35 2001

Interesting how peoples experiences differ.

(1) I never had any problems with the drives on my Osborne under moderate to
heavy use, but I did have a DD upgrade done. I purchased it in Feb of 1981
and it had a fairly low serial number.

(2) I found Elephant disks to be the _worst_ brand I used. I ended up
tossing them all out (a box or two). I had much better luck with Maxell and
Dysan.

-----Original Message-----
From: Louis Schulman [mailto:louiss_at_gate.net]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 2:34 PM
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Osborne floppy drives (was Apple Floppy Drives)


I am happy to hear that. That Osborne was evidently "very low mileage".
And, while I don't remember
exactly, I may have aligned the drives on that machine, or swapped drives
with another to get a pair of
dirves that worked together. For some reason, drives that won't work
correctly in one Osborne sometimes
will in a different machine, even though this would appear to not make
sense.

Louis

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001 01:21:09 -0500, Glen Goodwin wrote:

#> From: Louis Schulman <louiss_at_gate.net>
#
#> What about the single board CP/M machines? I have them too. The disk
#drives on the Osborne were,
#> based on extensive experience, the least reliable ever made. If one
#drive could read what another had
#> written, it was a gift from God. And with the double density upgrade, it
#was much worse.
#
#Really?? The Osborne 1 I got from you works perfectly. I've used it to
#copy boatloads of disks, and have also used my Kaypro 10 and my Wintel PC
#to make disks for it, without fail.
#
#Glen
#0/0
#
Received on Fri Nov 09 2001 - 14:58:35 GMT