[rescue] Anybody remember MFM? (Durango Poppy II problem)

[Dave McGuire]

On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 01:24 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>> Scratch this.  Just found the post with the pictures.  Although it 
>> does
>> beg the question as to if that machine needs special cables.  It's 
>> been
>> so long I can't recall if MFM cables had a twist or not in them.
>
> No they did not. The drives had ID jumpers.

   So do floppy drives...the cables had that twisted segment so that all 
the drives could be jumpered identically.

         -Dave

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