Re: 'Frankenstein' Disk Drives, Done Cheap

From: Ingo Korb <*ml_at_akana.de*> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2014 20:22:03 +0200 Message-ID: <usip1z2us.fsf@dragon.akana.de> · ml_at_akana.de

"smf" <smf@null.net> writes:

> I guess commodore dropped the ball again as the 1571 connected to a
> zoomfloppy can run really fast.

As far as I can tell from occasional postings on various forums, the
Zoomfloppy/1571 combination seems to suffer from reliability problems
and the usual advice given is to use a very short, high quality
cable. Therefore it appears that Commodore did not "drop the ball again"
but instead chose reliability over speed, which most sane companies
would do in this situation to reduce support costs and to avoid the
impression that their products are unreliable. 

-ik

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