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From: prl3546@tahoma.UUCP (Philip R. Lindberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Disk drive troubles
Message-ID: <343@tahoma.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 89 19:11:10 GMT
References: <1285@wpi.wpi.edu>
Organization: The Boeing Co., BCA FSL, Seattle, WA
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From article <1285@wpi.wpi.edu>, by dseah@wpi.wpi.edu (David I Seah):
> I "gave" my Apple IIe to my sister for college word processing.  She has
> managed to destroy the monitor output (her boyfriend super-glued it back on.
> argh) and now both disk drives.  One disk drive is an Applied Engineering
> 
> I never had much success with the AE drive.  This is actually the third drive
> The drive currently destroys anything that it touches. 
> 
> My sister is beginning to eye my GS...help!  
> 
> | <<<<<(((((( DAVE SEAH ))))))>>>>>

One note of caution, to you and to everybody else out there.  I use to have
a //e with two drives.  I wanted to reduce space and my dad wanted a "another
true Apple drive" so I gave him one of mine and bought a Mapleleaf half-height.
I had nothing but trouble with it.  I send it back twice, etc., and finally
retired it to a read only position.  Anyhow, years later, my sister "smoked"
her //e's drive (and controller card) and came to me for help.  With my //gs
I really only use my 5.25 drives a little so I gave her my Apple 5.25 drive/
controller and reluctantly hooked up my Mapleleaf to my Central Point Univ.
Controller with my other 3.5 as #2.  I have been using this configuration for
weeks now and have had _NO_ problems with the Mapleleaf drive!  It reads,
writes, slices, dices, and makes julian fries!!  I've been bitching for along
time about how bad a drive the Mapleleaf was and now I'm eating crow.

So, what I'm trying to say is: don't be so quick to rag on AE and their drive.
They make a lot of _good_ products.  Check to be sure its not something else
in your machine first.  Okay?