On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Tom Jennings wrote:
> In the day quality and specs were such that it was foolish to use the
> wrong media. Today you can pull that stuff. Using DD as SD should be OK,
> but the converse will work "most" of the time, which is useless unless
> you're just playing.
There used to be a popular folk myth that all single sided diskettes
actually double sided ones that had failed testing on one side.
I find it hard to believe that any company could be profitable
with THAT high a failure rate!
> We used to pay $80 for a box of DSDD Dysan 8" floppies and align the
> disk drives every year with a Dysan alignment diskette and an
> oscilloscope. That's what it took for repeatable reliability. It sucked.
... and yet nobody was buying 8" Dysan alignment diskettes and new
shrinkwrapped Dysan floppies at $1 per diskette at VCF! My biggest
market segment was teachers who each wanted ONE diskette to wave in
the air when talking to classes about the days of dinosaurs.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin_at_xenosoft.com
Received on Thu Jun 03 2004 - 20:18:00 BST