Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

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From: <silverdr@wfmh.org.pl>
To: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2019 1:19 PM
Subject: Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

...neither forced the logical drive id depend on the position on the cable

Why is this a problem? The computer world at the time was full of position-dependent cards and even disk drives, identical standard parts whose function depended on where/how they were plugged in. What's so wrong with "Drive A goes here and drive B goes there, especially since the cables were often labelled ?"

> nor render additional select lines useless because of your hack, etc. 

Where would you mount these extra (full-height) drives? The 'additional select lines' were provided externally on the back panel where they belonged.