17 Oct
2011
17 Oct
'11
4:49 p.m.
On 17 Oct 2011 at 15:30, Fred Cisin wrote:
I encountered 5.25" 96TPI DSDD diskettes that
were purported to be
from a Seiko 8610 that were full of EBCDIC. But, that could always be
the fault of the user who sent them to me, and they might have been
something as simple as images from a terminal session?
Note: I have NO IDEA what a Seiko 8610 is. I only dealt with the
diskettes.
The 8600 (the 8610 was the CPU box; the 8620 was the terminal) appear
to be pretty much 8086 multiuser boxes running the usual suspects,
although I've never heard of UNIDOL.
http://www.1000bit.it/scheda.asp?id=787
I do have a sample disk from the 8600; it is indeed 96 tpi DSDD
(80*2*16*256) and it's ASCII. So the EBCDIC stuff must have
originated somewhere else.
I'm not saying that CP/M-86 couldn't be made to work in EBCDIC, but
it might be a little challenging, given CP/M's use of bit 7 in disk
directory file names.
--Chuck