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From: hsu@eneevax.UUCP (Dave Hsu)
Newsgroups: net.micro.apple
Subject: Re: Apple //e Interrupts
Message-ID: <103@eneevax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 14-Aug-86 00:50:13 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug 14 00:50:13 1986
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In article <250@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>	The Brrrrraaattt! that apple disk drives make has to be one of
>the worst sounds on earth!  Of course, other than at start up, that
>noise is usually indicitive that major loss of data eith just has
>or is about to happen.

Better than the Pbbbbbbbt! sound that (what was it, Locksmith 5.0?)
makes when you hit reset and it magically locks your head into some
unfriendly position :-)

>I really appreciate this, since media positioning is easy to botch
>on the newer "duodisk"; I really miss the old Shugarts!

I have other grips about the duodisk units, largely because of their
unfriendliness towards half- and quarter- stepping, but also because
upside-down disks (like Wizardry, for instance) tend to get stuck on
the inside of the drive.  I never did trust spring-eject mechanisms
anyway.

See what happens when you take a design cue from the Commodore 64?

>Another nifty device is the "BAL" drive controller.  At boot time

Good idea!

>Bill Mayhew

-dave
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