10 May
2009
10 May
'09
8:40 a.m.
Steven Hirsch wrote:
On Sat, 9 May 2009, js at cimmeri.com wrote:
Likewise, I'm starting to get tired of the sense of entitlement and
whining behaviors you've had on display lately over when people here
don't provide you with what you need, or fast enough. For example, the
way you were hollering at everyone the other day because no one had
replied to your request for 820 disks or whatever.. was just being a tad
too demanding. This group isn't the hired staff of "Best Buy" with
you being a customer. And your emails following Dunfield's response
(already elaborated upon earlier) were oozing with negativity. You
were blaming everyone else for having a bad mood, when it was YOU in the
bad mood.
Anyway, we're free to state opinions here. If I posted a question here
every time I hit the most minor of snags, I would EXPECT some people to
get annoyed with me. I've learned the most when people have ignored me
for the right amount of time. Of course, you have responded to that
thrust with MORE negativity.
jS
Steven Hirsch wrote:
Thanks for the condescension, John. I'm getting real, real tired of
the tone on this list and will probably take a break from any posting
here. Now I'm beginning to understand why folks like Sellam left.
I'm glad you think that I didn't spend any time trying to work it out
myself.
Back to the original subject:
I have IMD chugging away merrily on the Compaticard and, thanks to
some advice from Dave, can use it as the secondary controller.
Now, I'm trying to figure out how to format a SSDD diskette for the
Xerox. They use a screwy format where track 0 is FM 128 bytes/sector
(26 x 128) and all the others are MFM 256 bytes/sector (26 x 256).
Is there a way I can kludge through this with IMD? Or, do the Xerox
system utilities actually reformat track 0 when you sysgen (in which
case, it really doesn't matter what track 0 is configured as)?
Steve
Then try to figure it out, Steve. You're doing yourself a disservice
by throwing in the towel so easily on every little question.