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"Charles Sandmann" <cwsdpmi AT earthlink DOT net> wrote in message
news:QZadnYMxDO0TT0PUnZ2dnUVZ_sudnZ2d AT earthlink DOT com...
>
> Try compiling from old MFM disks ...
> sometime and you can really see the difference.

I can't.  All my MFM drives died well over a decade ago.  In fact, all of
the MFM's I had seemed to die after a just a few years of use...  If I
wanted to go through the work of unpacking my old computer stuff (not
happening...), I _could_ try a really old IDE - which was working when
packed away.  Technically, I guess it was pre-IDE drive, since it came with
it's own interface card which was supposedly IDE.

Allow I'm certain MFM's blew like light bulb's, this guy has a page saying
they were quite reliable:
http://www.redhill.net.au/d/d-a.html

Ha!  I recognize the ST-225 and ST-251.  But, I'm not sure if I owned them.
The MFM drives I remember looked at little bit like the TM262 or HH-1050
pictures, odd light "orange" color cast metal, and a big exposed stepper
motor like floppy...

> Try compiling from ... god forbid floppies
> sometime and you can really see the difference.

You mean 5 1/4 inch floppies (or "god forbid," 8 inch floppies...), not
"large capacity," and "modern," 3 1/2 inch floppies, right?  Personally, I
wouldn't even attempt compiling on 5 1/4's with anything other than Turbo
C/C++, or perhaps another compiler of the era.


Rod Pemberton