28 Jul
2005
28 Jul
'05
6:33 p.m.
I just acquired a Rainbow with ~10 boxes of disks.
Most are for DOS it seems, though some for cpm/86.
Could someone explain the differences between the
types of media meant to run on this puter, whether it
has to do with os, or physical properties (soft
sectored, hard sectored, RX50...). I also have access
The RX50 drive (used in the Rainbow, and for that matter the Pro) is a 80
cylinder single-sided drive. The Rainbow (and Pro) have soft-sectored
double-density controllers, and store about 360K on each disk.
These parameters are independant of the OS used.
-tony