Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: Mike Stein <mhs.stein_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 12:00:43 -0500
Message-ID: <9DBED73E3D224495A070B5F4D20E8C54@310e2>
A question for those folks who think that the twisted cable was a hardware-crippling hack by incompetent "engineers":

IDE drives & cables essentially did the same thing, modifying the cable by cutting one wire so that CS could be implemented.

Is that the same thing? Is it really unacceptable to use a modified cable in order to be able to just plug in a drive anywhere without having to worry about Master/Slave jumpers?
Received on 2019-01-08 19:00:11

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