26 Dec
2012
26 Dec
'12
8:06 p.m.
On 12/26/12 7:43 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 12/26/2012 06:13 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
I can imagine.. There are a bunch of weird formats in there, along with a bunch in the big
batch of disks
that I gave him in 2000. So far, I've been grinding through the ones that are defined
(there's no shortage
of those..) The Jade ones are interesting because the collection which I sent down was
from a pallet
at a surplus store in the 90s that I'm pretty sure came from Girvin Herr, who designed
a bunch of the Jade
boards.
Now I've got to come up with the 22disk
description for them (since I
don't want
to keep bugging Chuck about them).
Take a look at the Jade definition (JAD1). A related one is SUP5 which gets 30 128-byte
MFM sectors on a 5.25" floppy. I've probably got the Altos one somewhere stashed
away. Generally, since the
format required special hardware setups, I left it out. But I'm sure that I've
seen it.
Don and I exchanged a fair amount of email about the issue.