[TUHS] Cryptic Unix Commands

[Warner Losh]

On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 9:03 AM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 10:31 AM William Pechter <pechter at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Screw IBM for the in cable drive select lines on diskette
>>
> You of course realized that was because of field service issues of
> course.   Setting all floppies (and later ST-506 disks) on the PC and using
> a twist in the cable meant they did not have to ask FS folks to set the
> jumpers properly.
>

 Ah yes, the original zeroconfig :)

Warner
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