On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 16 Jul 2010 at 9:25, Steven Hirsch wrote:
- Treat each physical diskette as a logical drive
and use binary
select lines on interface to choose.
That's the way the Amlyn drives for the Apple that I've seen work.
One drive mechanism, magazine of five floppies, appears as five
drives.
That makes sense, but I'm wondering how they dealt with that at the
software level. Under Apple DOS, you access disks by Sn,Dn (slot 1-7 and
drive 1 or 2). Unless they patched DOS you couldn't say, for example,
S7,D4. I think I need to get the software for this beast.
Do you recall anything about the command structure?
There was also a version for the PC, but I don't
remember how that
worked.
Fred Cisin indicated that the PC version saw a single logical disk spread
across all five floppies.
Steve
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