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

[vance at neurotica.com]

There's always DIP switches.

Peace...  Sridhar

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Dave McGuire wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> Dave McGuire                 "You don't have Vaseline in Canada?"
> St. Petersburg, FL                     -Bill Bradford
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