On 8/13/23 08:39, Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk wrote: > You've amplified my point, Fred! When I saw the abomination of > cross-over selects in the cables in the IBM PC, I knew the need for > Field Service Engineers was coming to an end! > > I don't believe anything on Wikipedia anymore. When I saw them say that > there is no such thing as a legal definition for a pint of beer in > Canada, I got an actual legal definition from the Federal Government, > created an account on wikipedia, and put in the correct legal definition > with a reference to the law. (It's 568.26 ml btw - make sure you get > that last .26ml :-) ) > > I week later it had been changed back to the previous text, and I could > not get in to correct it!
You should see the "interesting" cabling for getting three drives on a PC controller, using only one cable. Several ISA SCSI and ESDI controllers could accommodate this on their floppy section.. At least one DTC controller allowed for running 4 drives the way Al Shugart intended--common motor, different drive selects. --Chuck
