25 May
2007
25 May
'07
4:34 a.m.
Hi,
No, that's right. The standard disc controller in the Sirius couldn't handle
FM or MFM discs at all.
I used to collect Sirii and Apricots, as I recall at some point *very* late
in the life of the machine the manufacturers produced a floppy controller
board which could read/write standard IBM 5.25' floppies.
I don't know whether this board supported both IBM and "Sirius" formats or
which IBM format (360K/1.2MB), but they did exist and were rarer than hen's
teeth even back in 1990 - I knew two people who had them, despite never
being able to find one myself.
TTFN - Pete.
For a suitable
definition of 'nice'. Actually I
don't much care for it, as it's can't read or write
a 'standard' (FM or MFM) disk. The ability to
exchange disks with the rest of the world is
something I put very high up my list of desirable
features.
Those drives couldn't read a standard MFM encoded
disk? I would have sworn there was a utility to
accomplish that.