On Tue, Jan 08, 2019 at 09:11:42AM +0100, silverdr@wfmh.org.pl wrote: > > On 2019-01-07, at 21:02, Mike Stein <mhs.stein@gmail.com> wrote: > > What I find slightly offensive is denigrating the IBM engineers of the day (by putting "engineers" in quotes for example) for devising an IMO very clever way of working around this 'shortcoming' without having to modify all the drives as you would have them do. > > Order ones with proper design in there. Either they specified things wrong upon ordering and had to do "brilliant" hacks once it was too late to change the order or they didn't think of the proper design in advance. Either case doesn't give them much credit. And compare what they did to what virtually every other, self-respectful engineering team did about the same time when building their machines and having to deal with the very same constraints of the time. Then you'll know why the quotes. The original IBM PC came with either zero (tape only) or one disk drives. It was never designed to be a "standard" or "first of a family", either, as far as I see; it was just a one-off product. SegherReceived on 2019-01-08 12:00:03
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