Re: The Saltine's Disks Archived at Mac GUI Vault

[schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>]

On Mar 23, 2:05 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
> Moose wrote:
> > On Mar 23, 5:33 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> >>Aside from disks, by far the biggest cause of disk errors is a dirty
> >>or slightly misaligned drive head, or an off-speed drive.  
>
> > Or even a fault on the Apple ]['s motherboard.  Just about every time
> > one of my Apple ]['s motherboards broke down / developed a fault, it
> > always seemed to turn the drive into a disk erasing / chewing
> > machine.  Not a good thing ....  ;)
>
> I'm happy to have never seen that problem.  ;-)

I have, but not because of the motherboard... but because of mis-
aligining the pins on the header of the old-style Disk II card.
Instant disk erasing machine. :-)