Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

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From: <silverdr@wfmh.org.pl>
To: <cbm-hackers@musoftware.de>
Sent: Monday, January 07, 2019 6:57 AM
Subject: Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?



>> What's so wrong with "Drive A goes here and drive B goes there, especially since the cables were often labelled ?"

>I have different experiences than you with this and for me it's been a source of sizeable frustration back in the days.

Not to be insulting, but I don't see how or why this would be a cause for frustration; as a matter of fact it's convenient when troubleshooting to be able to quickly swap drives without having to futz with tiny little jumpers, not to mention it's less complicated for techs of the day with little or no experience.

>You gate /MTR with /DSx as easy as possible and you're done - aren't you? That's what should have been done instead of twisting parts of flat cables.

At least to me (and Mia ;-) a ridiculously simple way to allow completely independent control of the drive motors without any modifications whatsoever seems like a better idea; that also allows delaying turn-off so that the motor doesn't always start and stop on every access.

Anyway, sorry that it caused you so much frustration (and apparently still does ;-)..