[rescue] Anybody remember MFM? (Durango Poppy II problem)
Dave McGuire
mcguire at neurotica.com
Wed Aug 6 16:37:39 CDT 2003
On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 05:36 PM, Frank Van Damme wrote:
>> The cable isn't *supposed* to have a twist in it. That
>> brain-deadness was started by IBM on the floppy interface to flip the
>> device select bits around, so that they could have a big stock of
>> floppy drives in the warehouse that were all jumpered the same.
>
> I find using jumpers for anything crap... Oops, dropped another one!
> *shake
> shake*
Yes, but in those days people like YOU didn't open up computer
chassis! ;)
[dave ducks]
-Dave
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