anyone with an early Option Board?

On Sun, 28 Oct 2012, Adrian Stoness wrote: A "flux transition" board. It connects between the FDC, which still handles setting step to track signals, etc., and it looks ate the signal from the drive before the FDC gets hold of it for processing. It is functionally similar to the CatWeasel, DiscFerret, and Kryoflux. It was marketed base on its ability to make unauthorized copies of copy-protected disks. But, for OUR purposes, it provides a way to look at, or maybe even read, disk with physical formats that our FDCs can't handle. It can be used to edit data and clock bits, to fix certain kinds of flaws on disks. The "Deluxe" version can handle a number of things that the original board could not, such as Mac diskettes. But, the "deluxe" is VLSI, whereas some of the earliest ones were discrete chips. The Option Board came with a program called TC.EXE for copying disks, and a program called TE.EXE, which permitted editing the data and clock bits. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com