Re: Apple //e keeps Killing Floppy Drives!

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On Jul 25, 8:51 am, "John B. Matthews" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
> In article <ylThk.14055$cW3.13...@nlpi064.nbdc.sbc.com>,
>  "Dave Althoff, Jr." <dalloff.gcfn....@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> > John B. Matthews <nos...@nospam.com> wrote:
> > :
> > : I lugged a DuoDisk to a trade show some years ago. Its first (left)
> > : drive ate disks by seeking and overwriting track zero. I assumed it was
> > : the drive, but it could have been carelessly connected.  Is there some
> > : component in the DuoDisk that could turn a drive into a killer? :-)
>
> > Oh, gee...you have dredged up a bad memory.
>
> Yeah, I get that a lot. :-)
>
> OTOH, the nice man at Apple's Rolling Meadows facility helped restore my
> demo and complimented my Pascal RAM disk driver. Jim Mensch* was the
> guy; I still have his card; he still works for Apple.
>
> * mensch: Noun, plural mensches or menschen. Yiddish, from the German
> Mensch (human). A person of integrity and honor. Seems apt!
>
> > There are two modifications to be made to *old* DuoDisk drives.  Two
> > capacitors need to be clipped from the board to keep them from killing
> > disks, and a resistor needs to be clipped if you plan to run the DuoDisk
> > on a SmartPort.
>
> > Someone has the details around here someplace.  I remember spending a
> > couple of days going around the ad-hoc computer training facility and
> > trimming caps from all the DuoDisks after the bulletin came out.
>
> <http://home.swbell.net/rubywand/Csa2FDRIVE.html>
>
> Too late for me, but future generations will live free!
>
> > [...] as the drive dutifuly formatted my boot disk...
>
> <Mel Blanc as Elmer Fudd as Kurtz> The horror, the horror...
>
> --
> John B. Matthews
> trashgod at gmail dot com
> home dot woh dot rr dot com slash jbmatthews

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