Den Tue, 8 Jan 2019 17:53:36 +0100 skrev Francesco Messineo <francesco.messineo@gmail.com>: > On Tue, Jan 8, 2019 at 5:39 PM Gerrit Heitsch > <gerrit@laosinh.s.bawue.de> wrote: > > > > On 1/8/19 5:07 PM, Mike Stein wrote: > > > > > > I think it was a clever hack; if you insist on seeing it as > > > evidence of the incompetence of the designers and engineers who > > > had to build it within the usual constraints, so be it. > > > > It was a clever hack. But it also meant you were limited to only 2 > > drives per Controller where the standard back then allowed up to 4 > > drives on a cable. > > I don't really have a strong opinion on this, but I'd like to have a > better background. How did the various CP/M machines 'solve' this > issue? Did both motors start together or did they have separate cables > for each drive? Microbee 128 ran all drive motors when any drive motor needed to be on. -- (\_/) Copy the bunny to your mails to help (O.o) him achieve world domination. (> <) Come join the dark side. /_|_\ We have cookies.Received on 2019-01-08 19:01:28
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