17 Sep
2006
17 Sep
'06
11:32 a.m.
On 9/16/2006 at 4:30 PM Allison wrote:
Ah, it's using the definitive PC FDC. It was
developed well before
PCs standardized. PCs however don't offer much choice and if they did
keep all the FDC features you could put a 8" on a PC and read SSSD!
You could?!? (if I'm parsing your statement correctly). IIRC, the original
PC FDC card had IBM's proprietary data separator on it (several hybrid
packagaes) and couldn't read SD/FM to save its life. It also had the 8272
(non "A") part, so it had other problems with "alien" formats.
Unless, of course, we're talking about PCs in the generic sense and not the
5150 per se. There, it's a crapshoot as to what capabilites any given FDC
card has.
Cheers,
Chuck