"intelligent" disk drives

[Tony Duell]

> 
> North Star, on the other hand, did some very oddball things with 
> their kits.  Such as supplying TO-99 ICs when they couldn't get the 
> DIP-8 version.  ("Just bend the leads, okay?").

It's easier to do that than the reverse. I rememer having to replace a 
metal-can (10 lead TO-100 I think) uA723 regulator chip. The only one I 
could get wsa the 14 pin DIL version. I eneded up dead-bugging it to the 
PCB and using kludgewires...

-tony