From: et472@ncf.ca   
      
   On Mon, 21 Jul 2014, Thomas Lake wrote:   
      
   > Thank you George and Al! My unit is a converted Model III and it does   
   > have the tiny, orange trim pot on the motherboard. I adjusted it (more   
   > like just touched it with the adjustment tool!) and now the computer   
   > boots up fine every time. The only thing left is to figure out how to   
   > use double-sided disk drives in this machine. I can replace the   
   > single-sided drives with double-sided and they work fine in single-sided   
   > mode.   
   >   
   The software, either in ROM or on disk, I'm not sure which, doesn't know   
   that the floppy drives are double sided.   
      
   When I got my first floppy drive, 30 years ago, for my Color Computer, the   
   package was from a third party and the controller came with a third party   
   ROM so the double sided drive could be used as a double sided drive.  They   
   used some odd scheme, so it's not compatible with later arrangements,   
   which is why I have a bunch of floppy disks I can't read without finding   
   that ROM and hoping it still works (it was an eprom) and putting it in the   
   controller.   
      
   OS-9 could be patched to deal with the other side.   
      
       Michael   
      
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