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JoeCommodore 277 days ago | parent | on: Apple memo : No more typewriters - 1980.
Wonder how well that worked on N.C.R. forms where line spacing was not predictable...
- bmonkey325 276 days ago
  Pre printed forms sucked. Daisy wheels had limited platen control to advance the paper a short bit to hit a specific part of the page. Dot matrix a little better but goddamn so much noise
JoeCommodore 542 days ago | parent | on: Vintage Computing Christmas Challenge 2023 (VC³ 20...
Awesome - Already got my entry ready, Do I need to sign up at a site or something for this?
JoeCommodore 582 days ago | parent | on: Ask TSB: best source for 5 1/4 inch floppies?
Double or High Density? As HD magnetic surface is too dense for use in SD/DD/QD drives reliably - it might be you are using the wrong type of disks in your drives?
A good giveaway that a disk is DD is they usually have a hub ring. Hub rings were necessary on DD disks because some drives (Apple II?) couldn't grip disk without one.
- benmca 582 days ago
  Thx for the reply. DD. Definitely using DS/DD with hub rings. My zorba seems to spin them fine. I bought a still shrink wrapped box of dshd 3Ms (out of curiosity) and I managed to format roughly 30 of the tracks.