Re: Apple //e keeps Killing Floppy Drives!

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.com>]

In article <ylThk.14055$cW3.13681@nlpi064.nbdc.sbc.com>,
 "Dave Althoff, Jr." <dalloff.gcfn.org@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> John B. Matthews <nospam@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.

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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...

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