Re: Did Commodore cheat with the quad density floppies?

From: Mia Magnusson <mia_at_plea.se>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 02:16:14 +0100
Message-ID: <20190115021614.0000423f@plea.se>
Den Fri, 11 Jan 2019 08:12:40 +0100 skrev Gerrit Heitsch
<gerrit@laosinh.s.bawue.de>:
> On 1/11/19 12:03 AM, Mia Magnusson wrote:
> > 
> > BTW with two separate cables, you could run in to problems with
> > bad signal quality on the read/write signals due to reflections.
> 
> Not necessarily. This way you could just have the terminators
> installed on both drives and the controller would have been in the
> middle of the chain.
> 
> You'd then have to remove the terminator from the controller card
> when you add a second drive. That way the drives would have been 100%
> the same but behave differently.

With external drives you'd end up with a three winged "star". Not
good... :)

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