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- Reply-To: ppieroni@ppse.win-uk.net (Chip Pieroni)
- From: ppieroni@ppse.win-uk.net (Chip Pieroni)
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 16:17:56 GMT
- Subject: Re: C1571 and "flippies"
-
-
- In article <4gham4$pq8@crl7.crl.com>, Jack Vander White (ceejack@crl.com) writes:
- >Chip Pieroni (ppieroni@ppse.win-uk.net) wrote:
- >
- >: >Think about it. If you flip the disk over, it will be spinning in
- >: >the direction
- >: >opposite to that in which it was formatted.
- >: >
- >
- >: I think what would be needed is some way of flipping the
- >: top head around 90Degrees, but it ain't really worth it !
- >
- >Chip, wrong thinking. Its the motor that spins the disk. Has
- >nothing to do with flipping the head around. The disk is spinning
- >in the reverse direction of wht a flippie would be spinning in.
- >
- >Jack VW
-
- If you reveresed the top head then in effect it would be
- the same as the drive reversing, as it then reads from right--left
- (Exactly the same as reversing the disk direction.) as opposed to it
- reading from left---right. HOWEVER, how could it properly use the
- drive if it couldn't control the motor ?
-
-
- After all, the 1541 writes the disk sides as completly
- seperate (And would have to be used as such, but not at the same
- time, as the top head would want another part of the top disk than
- the bottom !) not like a 1571.
-
-
- Anyway...
-
-
- Cheers !
-
-
- Chip Pieroni..
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