Re: Apple IIc modifications

[Kevin Dady <kevin@hackaday.com>]

On Oct 31, 8:29 pm, Tony Cianfaglione <ab...@chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2011, Mark Frischknecht wrote:
> > Probably when it is most inconvenient. I have seen the problem happen, at
> > Kfest a programmer was handing out copies of software h programed  on 3.5 HD
> > disks formatted as 800k and none of the disks were readable. So please keep
> > your sarcastic comments to yourself.
>
>     It's possible that my drives are running at a slightly higher power
> level as I use custom made power supplies which push out a bit more juice.
> Maybe this is resulting in better results for me in this regard.  I'm not
> being sarcastic; it's just that I've had very good results with HD disks
> as DD disks for a quarter century.

not to nitpick but supplies dont push, they provide, ie you hook a 1
amp load to a 0.5amp supply, its going to provide 1 amp as that is
what the circuit consumes, which could cause your supply to simply
overheat and shut down, or if its big iron and coils, melt down and
burn up. Likewise if your circuit is only drawing 0.5 amp's you could
hook a 500 amp battery to the thing and its still only going to use
0.5 amps.