[Coco] Re: Any problem with connecting 2 floppies to one power supply?

[Amardeep S Chana]

"Gene Heskett" <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote
in message news:200402012000.33788.gene.heskett at verizon.net...
>
> That said, I did it for several years in my grass valley e-disk
> simulation running on os9, but its duty cycle was quite low.  Never
> had a problem with it, ever, other than dying wd-1773's in the disk
> controllers, it used up 3 of them in 13 years.  I think the purple
> plague ate them, a well known PMOS chip failure mechanism.
>

Hi Gene,

According to the data sheets, the WD chips were all NMOS even back to the
1771 single density parts.

Amardeep