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From: Anonymous on 15 Apr 2008 01:08
In article <480396f1$0$236$bb4e3ad8(a)newscene.com>,
Cameron Kaiser <ckaiser(a)floodgap.com> wrote:
> >From: Myke Carter <mykec(a)delphi.com>
> >Reply-to: Myke Carter <mykec(a)delphi.com>
> >X-Original-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 Oct 98 22:07:49 -0500
>
> If you ever need to knock some sense back into a 1541 or 1571
> floppy drive, this is the program that'll do it. On occasion
> a drive can get knocked silly from a vicious copy-protection
> scheme or from trying to read old and dying/dead disks. The
> condition is so bad that initializing the drive is useless.
> It often appears that nothing short of a hardware repair can
> correct the problem. Before you go that far, however, give
> the ol' reverse-knocker a RUN.
>
> I wouldn't suggest using this program to reverse-knock a 1581,
> CMD FD or HD drive, or a RAMLink. It will work for 1541s and
> 1571s set to device #8 though. I got the best results by
> reverse knocking a drive of mine while a disk was in it
> rather than when it was empty.
>
> If I'm not mistaken, this program comes from the September 1988
> issue of RUN magazine.
>
> Myke

This program seems to be missing a REM in line 5.
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