sfahey wrote:
To: Michael J. Mahon Re: Re: ADTPro with fast Disk II reads released By: Michael J. Mahon to comp.sys.apple2 on Mon Aug 27 2007 10:15 am > Frankly, Apple has reused "superdrive" so many times and for so > many different things that the term should probably be retired. > The only thing it's better than is "FDHD"! ;-) Marketing thought "Superduperdrive" didn't sound professional enough.
;-) Since there's really nothing "super" about it (it only brings Apple drives up to what by then had become the industry standard 3.5" density), and it's real contribution is its versatility in supporting both the 800K GCR format and the 1.44M MFM format, maybe "Versadisk" would have been a better choice. -michael NadaPong: Network game demo for Apple II computers! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."