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

schmidtd wrote:

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. :-)


That sounds "write".  ;-)

It's a shame that the "shrouded" header connector was such a
late development for the Disk II Controller.  It would have
saved a lot of heartache.  Come to think of it, it was probably
the warranty work that caused Apple to change the connector!

-michael

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