> > had two Apples when I closed my office), I encountered berserk controllers
> > wiping disks three times. Two were OEM, one was generic after-market.
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> I'm speaking of Apple controllers. I haven't had much (if any) experience
> with third-party disk controllers for the Apple.
"OEM" == "original equipment manufacturer" in other words REAL Apple.
The ones that I encountered (YMMV) were two made by Apple, and one
non-name imitation.
Most of the after-market were pretty direct copied, although I remember
seeing one that had some extra diagnostics and stuff. And, of course,
there was the Sorrento Valley Associated board that did MFM in Apple ][
> One thing about Apple, they are expensive, but they're built very well.
Most of their stuff was pretty good. But there were a few recurrent
problems, specifically including the corners they cut on the disk system,
and the crappy sockets that they used to use.
Received on Thu Dec 19 2002 - 17:59:00 GMT
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