"intelligent" disk drives

[Chuck Guzis]

On 18 Nov 2007 at 14:32, M H Stein wrote:

> Yeah, tell me about 100TPI; a couple of us with Vector Graphics are cursing
> the day Micropolis came up with those; to top it off, they used hard sector
> diskettes (Vector - the 8050 didn't care) so the disks are almost as scarce 
> as the drives...

Micropolis floppy drives were very well-made.  I wish that modern 
drives could be as well-built.  All of mine are still operational.

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?").

Cheers,
Chuck