10 Jan
2006
10 Jan
'06
6:56 p.m.
On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Nico de Jong wrote:
That is correct. I have more than once had my fingers
in PC's which could
not read MS-DOS 320K disks, not to speak of 160K.
That is a SOFTWARE, not hardware, problem, likely due to software that
relies on the OS to tell it what it can and can't do.
You could also try to find a MicroSolutions
Compaticard IV. I once managed
to create an 8" DSSD disk containing MS-DOS 3.something. The PC could even
boot from it!
I wonder if there would be enough interest in that card to make a small
production run feasible. According to http://www.micro-solutions.com/ they
are no longer in business, so maybe a reverse engineering thing might be
possible ?
There's nothing in the Compaticard that would need reverse engineering.
Allison could probably design the same thing; CORRECTION: BETTER;
in less time than it takes me to type this.
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com