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Offline marcfrick2112

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Re: The Hedley Davis Memorial Disk Drive
« Reply #14 from previous page: February 09, 2010, 06:07:46 AM »
I agree... WOW!

Easily one of the best posts I've read on A.org for some time....

Hedley, I really hope you'll stick around A.org .... Great Story!
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Re: The Hedley Davis Memorial Disk Drive
« Reply #15 on: February 09, 2010, 06:15:03 AM »
Quote from: hedley;542105
Now let he without sin cast the first stone, but if you had wasted your time like that, then maybe, just maybe you would understand.


Welcome to Amiga.org!  It feels good to know that I, too, have suffered the shame of an engineer of your caliber.  Damn fine story, and damn fine work, Sir.  Thank you for both.

My first memory of such a time was spending four -- or was it six? -- frustrating hours (with some breaks, mind you) on a small 6502 routine, recoding, writing, scribbling, cussing, maybe even crying at one point, only to find that my whole problem was caused by an innocent looking BEQ which should have been a BNE.  How the Hell did I miss that?  Not only shameful, but it should have been a red flag and notice to pursue a career which did not involve troubleshooting, as there have been a few, more entertaining, occurrences since.

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What's next? A freaking wikipedia page for the damn floppy drive?


Somebody working on this?  I do not have a wp account.... :roflmao:
 

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Re: The Hedley Davis Memorial Disk Drive
« Reply #16 on: February 09, 2010, 06:18:57 AM »
Hahaha I loved seeing that on the Video.  It was AWESOME!  I can relate with those darn floppy drives!  Wish I could chuck a few at my wall and frame it!
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Re: The Hedley Davis Memorial Disk Drive
« Reply #17 on: February 14, 2010, 04:13:33 AM »
Ya, well, you should try answering when the inevitable question pops up during job interviews.

If you like a good story, this one from the C128 days should amuse. http://home.datacomm.ch/fmeyer/c64/c128_story.html
 

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Re: The Hedley Davis Memorial Disk Drive
« Reply #18 on: February 14, 2010, 04:51:13 AM »
Nice story...

Hey, Hedley... Is this you? :-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PfzLRs7YC0

Love the shades! Did anyone ever tell you you look(ed) a bit like Judge Reinhold? :-)

Cheers,

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Re: The Hedley Davis Memorial Disk Drive
« Reply #19 on: February 14, 2010, 05:32:29 AM »
Funny thing is that most of these FB354 drives go out of alignment and can actually be fixed... ;-)
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Re: The Hedley Davis Memorial Disk Drive
« Reply #20 on: February 14, 2010, 05:46:59 AM »
Great tale. I don't have near that much control. I have had to learn how to patch wall board from those strange rectilinear holes that tend to appear around me when I loose it.
And that's with no where near the stress levels that the famed framed drive caused...
Oh well, Zen helped a lot.
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Re: The Hedley Davis Memorial Disk Drive
« Reply #21 on: February 16, 2010, 05:50:15 AM »
can u leave the video link ?