Half bad 2716s was:Re: 8" hard sectored floppies

From: Joe R. <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Fri Jun 4 13:14:32 2004

Dwight,

  I have a programmer that's suppsoed to be for the intel 2704 and 2708.
I've never seen any info on the 2704 and I've never seen one but I'm
guessing that it's a half bad 2708. Do you know any more about it?

   Joe


At 10:17 AM 6/4/04 -0700, you wrote:
>>From: "Ron Hudson" <ron.hudson_at_sbcglobal.net>
>>
>>
>>> On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Tom Jennings wrote:
>>> 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!
>>>
>>I once worked in memorex in the tape plant where open reel tape was made
>>and that is exactly how it was done, raw tape was run through error
>>detecting
>>machines and sorted.
>>
>>
>
>Hi
> This thinking always reminds me of a story from Intel.
>When they first started making 2716's, TI was biting
>into their 2708 market with the 2758's. Intel fought
>back with their version of the 2508. These were early
>half bad failures from the 2716 line. They even had
>a H/L pin to select which half to use. When they
>first started, they sold for quite a bit less than
>the 2716's ( about $30 ea ). Over time, the 2716's
>pricing went down to around $4 someplace. I got a kick
>out of seeing one of their price list showing the
>2508's still being sold for $32 ea.
> While I suspect that originally the half bad parts
>made sense but at the premium price they got for these,
>I suspect that they later just took fully tested
>2716's and relabeled them.
> I wonder how many purchasing agents realized that
>the 2716's worked just as well.
>Dwight
>
>
>
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