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

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@garberstreet.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Moose wrote:
>> On Mar 24, 7:54 am, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
>>>>> I'm happy to have never seen that problem.  ;-)
>>>
>>> I have, but not because of the motherboard... but because of misaligining the pins on the header of the old-style Disk II card.
>>
>> That's interesting.  Not the cause in my case though - none of the drives had been disconnected or reconnected. My Apple ][+ 
>> clone and my Apple ][c both became disk erasing machines with this motherboard fault. Last time I discussed this on 
>> comp.sys.apple2 or comp.emulators.apple2 was in the mid--late 1990's, and IIRC quite a few people joined in the discussion saying 
>> they had all experienced exactly the same thing.
>
> Any clue as to what the motherboard fault was--that affected both a ][+ and a IIc similarly?  Weird.

Also, I am curious as to whether, on the IIc, does it affect only the internal
drive, or the externally connected 5.25" drive, as well.  I would think that
a motherboard defect would affect both.

Bill