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From: bart@reed.UUCP (Bart Massey)
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Subject: Re: Who Misses Older Drives? (Re: write protect tab)
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Date: Fri, 14-Feb-86 00:06:47 EST
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In article <635@well.UUCP> Peter Espen says
> ..like on many of the older 5.25" and 8" drives that we all know and
> don't miss.

Speak for yourself.  I don't know if it's the IWM, the filesystem,
the mac format, or just inevitable problems with the high-density
medium, but I've seen more flakey mac disks in a week than
I saw flakey 5.25" and 8" disks in a month.  Besides, there was
really nothing inherently wrong with the 5.25" drives -- the
disks were plenty tiny to suit me, and had the potential for the
same storage as the mac disks.  I suppose it's the size of the drives
that was what made Apple use them in the mac, but frankly I would rather
have had a bigger box, with a 5.25" drive with a real VLSI MFM disk
controller chip in it...  Heck, the drives were almost the only thing
the IBM PC did right!

						Got the 3.5" Blues,
						Bart Massey
						..tektronix!reed!bart