I don't have that info, not having dwelt on Apple-related issues, since I heard
plenty about them every week at the 6502 group meetings. However, if you look
in nearly any BYTE or Kilobaud issue from 1979 on, you'll generally find one or
two articles about how to fool your Apple into working more reliably. Some, but
not all, attempted to sell you something.
In recent months I've had to impose on some of those guys who actually did
useful work in spite of the Apple, and one even got out his old Apple][+ and
transcribed some Apple materials for me. He was the first to underscore the
general fragility and lack of dependability of the Apple][.
If Sellam insists, then we can agree to disagree, since I don't think much of
the Apple][, not back in the early days of microcomputers, and certainly not
now, when we can all thank our lucky starts that we have better tools to use.
In any case, I don't miss 'em because I didn't use 'em myself back then, and I
don't want to do so now. Once that FOCAL manual is transcribed to a useful
format, these Apple machines I have are parts and scrap.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sellam Ismail" <foo_at_siconic.com>
To: <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 6:32 PM
Subject: Re: hard-sector 5 1/4 disk
> On Thu, 8 Nov 2001, Richard Erlacher wrote:
>
> > My point was that Sellam wasn't old enough to be earning his living
> > with the Apple ][ back in the very early '80's. I'm sure Sellam has
>
> And this somehow supports your ignorant ranting about Apple disk drives?
>
> > played with his Apples enough to know a great deal about them by now,
> > but the sorts of remarks he's made just don't line up with the
> > magazine articles about those very issues that were published back in
> > the '80's. People had problems with the Apple][ disk subsystem, but
> > not terrible ones. However, it's stretching things a bit to suggest
> > they were as dependable as the 8" units we used with CP/M boxes day in
> > and day out.
>
> WHAT MAGAZINE ARTICLES???
>
> Give me the name of the publication and the general timeframe, and I'll go
> LOOK IT UP FOR YOU since you won't give me any references. Since I have a
> complete collection of every Apple ][ and just about every non-Apple ][
> magazine, I'm SURE I'll be able to come up with the article claiming the
> Disk ][ was as unreliable as you claim it was.
>
> My guess, though, is that this would be a wasted effort, because you
> continue to talk out of your ass.
>
> > For me, a car isn't something I dream about. I just gave my Maxima to
> > my son, who drives a lot more than I do, and I'm driving a Chevy
> > that's old but has <50K miles on it in spite of its 14 years. Of
> > course I only drive about 2500 miles a year since I live pretty close
> > to everywhere I want to go.
>
> Good strategy! Change the subject and hope your moronic rantings will be
> forgotten.
>
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