18 May
2005
18 May
'05
11:01 a.m.
Allison wrote:
I was/am trying to get away from the multitude of
incompatable 5.25"
formats. By installing the 3.5" drives with Turborom that allowed
me to have only one media (3.5") and at most three formats on that
media (781k CP/M, 720k CP/M, 720K dos-PC) which is my sanity set
that all my machines can do directly at the media level and
programtically using applications.
Crap, I hit "Send" instead of Shift.
I agree, to a certain point. The systems I have that came to me in
factory original shape, I like to leave that way if possible. To an
extent I like to stick with "contemporary" mods in any case, but there
are a lot of architectures that have always begged (and received)
ongoing hacking. Amigas and most any CP/M system are good examples.
And the missing footnote from the first reply:
** He's up for grabs anyway. 22 years old, bigger than me, and contrary
as hell. :)
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