Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: Gerrit Heitsch <*gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de*> Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2019 18:06:39 +0100 Message-ID: <eef140f0-bddf-2a9f-b3e4-d96d58014248@laosinh.s.bawue.de> · gerrit_at_laosinh.s.bawue.de

On 1/8/19 6:00 PM, Mike Stein wrote:
> 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? 

No, it's not since you could still use the jumpers on the drives to 
select which one was Master if you wanted to. Also, since the drives 
didn't have to be accessible from the outside, it didn't make much of a 
difference where you put which.

With the floppy cable with the twist you had no choice, drive A was 
alwas the one on the end of the cable.

  Gerrit