Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 00:01:31 -0400 From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> To: jbryant@tfs.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppy disks Message-ID: <33544F1B.3F54BC7E@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> References: <199704150539.AAA10762@argus>
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Jim Bryant wrote: > > In reply: > > Chuck Robey wrote: > > (snip!) > > > floppy into the drive, do a DIR. I take that floppy out, put another one > > [snip] > > > (Also, control-c should reset it on DOS without all the grief).8) > > I thought that was for CP/M ???!!! At least the CP/M on my old Vector > 5005 S-100 box used to do it that way on a disk change :^) > (snip!) > [three terminals, 192k bank-switched [16k x 1's], multi-user CP/M, > three serial ports, Centronics port, 16 [hard] sectored 5.25" floppy > drive, ST-506 hard drive [whopping 5 Megs!], 18 S-100 slots, > well-filtered power supply with a transformer bigger than most US Navy > anchors, on a blazing fast Z80B running a steamy 6 MHz]!!! (snip!) I believe it works on DOS also (hmmmm...ever look at DOS 1.0 vis-a-vis CP/M?).. (My old CP/M box was an Altair with Persci 8 inchers and a Tarbell controller.) -Jim Durham
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