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Re: so a co-worker says to me "Software cant destroy hardware"...
07/28/12 10:39 PM
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> > I remember being told that it was possible to damage an Apple ][ drive by trying to
> > read or write to a sector outside the actual range. Could have been BS, never tried
> > to intentional damage any of the ones we had in school back then...83-ish
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> Sounds like a game of telephone distortion of the startup process. Wozniak omitted
> the "at track 0" sensor to save a few pennies, so the boot code would back the head
> up more times than there were tracks on a disk to guarantee it was at track 0. That
> would slam it into the backstop which produced the signature rat-a-tat sound but was
> harmless.
The 1541 drive for the C64 would knock itself out of alignment over time doing something like that. I remember running some "alignment" software that I got from someone and laughing my head off because it sounded like the drive was eating itself alive.
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