laptops and 5.25 inch floppy drives?

Yeah, one of those would be nice I suppose. I'm just too cheap. "And GCR doesn't imply varaible data rate or spindle speed. That Durango that I posted a web page on used GCR to good advantage without fooling with spindle speed (almost a 1MB on a 360K 5.25" diskette). I believe that Microtech marketed a PC that worked similarly (although I'd have to check to make sure). I think someone's written a Catweasel driver that fits almost 4MB on a 1.44MB diskette..." Yeah and what was the point of making that chick suspend the thing in air while they snapped the picture? I think the picture would have been just as alluring if they set it on a table and had her embellish it that manner. The Victor 9000 places 1.2 megs (how conveniently deceptive) on a DD floppy. I know it uses GCR encoding, and yes that doesn't equate to a variable speed spindle, just that commonly they go together (it seems anyway). I'm not sure if it does, but my guess is yes Now that's good news, because I know the Macs have variable spindle rates (that was my whole point about getting a REAL vintage Mac! You get to hear the whir-WHIR-whir-whir-WHIR-whir). I have an apparently early version of the "Deluxe" Option Board (were all them designated Deluxe?). It uses all discrete logic. I was pointed to a site that had all or most of the associated warez, but I've yet to try it out. If it wasn't obvious, the underlying subject of this part of thread is how to deal with the lack of a Victor 9000 boot floppy. It's been a while *obviously* but aren't the means to format individual tracks embedded in the rom-bios? Or were those dos services? I have a few books out in the shed, maybe I should just look it up! I had envisioned a scheme by which I could hack onto the bios so a blank floppy could be formatted in a V9000, and subsequently the date/image from a normal floppy could be transferred to it (I have a whole boatload of images for the machine, but I'm not quite sure how they created the image of a boot floppy...or why if it can't be created w/o a bootable V9000). *went out to the shed. Yes there is present in the BIOS a service to format tracks. Not all clones comply in this way though (but where would the routine to do this be if not in the bios?). I noticed in the docs for my NEC APC III that DOS function calls were more or less the same as a vanilla pc, but I don't recall seeing mention of the equivalent BIOS calls. Anyone know?* __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com