Re: Opinion

[ag471@yfn.ysu.edu (Eric S. Ford)]

In a previous article, spector@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) says:

>In article rogtha@delphi.com writes...
>>
>>Trivial little opinion question: Which of Apple's 5.25 drives
>>do you think is the best? Disk II, DuoDisk, Platinum 5.25,
>>etc.
>
>	Can we choose "None of the above"? :) I rather dislike
>Apple II 5.25 drives, they're slow, noisy, single sided and offer 
>only limited storage (140k). Mind you, I'm not exactly fond of any
>5.25 media storage, be it on any system. ;-)
>
>	However, if you want an opinion, I'd say the Apple 5.25
>was the nicest. I own couple of each type of drive listed above,
>and perfer the platinum Apple 5.25 over the rest. It was the
>most compact, most attractive and offered a more standardized
>interface and daisy-chain port. There was also the //c external
>5.25 drive, although since I've never seen one in person, I can't
>comment on it. An even nicer drive was the Asuka Newtech slimline
>drives I used over a decade ago. Exteremly quiet drives, none of
>the grinding and clatter offical Apple drives made. They were only
>made in Japan though, so I had difficulty getting a replacement chip 
>that kept dying. I once had to locate an Apple II user in Japan (via
>FidoNet) just to get a replacement. :)    

I seem to recall some very nice third party half-height drives for the Apple
that were significantly better than the Apple products.  And then ther were
the Rana double sided drives that required a special controller.  Even on
the single sided drives, if yours had the physical capability, you could
alter both DOS 3.3 and ProDOS to get another track and by flipping the disk
achieve storage nearly equal to the MSDOS capacity of that same era.


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