On Tue, Oct 29, 2024 at 7:10 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> Because one couldn't supply drives with an asterisk? > or because they didn't want to use the crappy Qume 142 drives on anything > else? > The Qume 142 was so slow stepping, that that was one of the reasons for > introducing PC-DOS 2.10, to have a slower step time. It is now my considered opinion that there is a special corner of Hades reserved for the designers of said drive. And that they should be forced spend eternity doing radial head alignments on them. You loosen off the stepper motor clamp, try to turn the motor body and find it sticks and then leaps half a dozen tracks. And when you do up the clamps, the alignment shifts. ARGH! -tony
