21 Nov
2007
21 Nov
'07
4:27 a.m.
On 11/19/07 3:58 PM, "Fred Cisin" <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
Micropolis made excellent floppy drives. It is too
bad that their hard
drives sucked.
Did anybody ever use their OS? (bundled with some of their 5.25" floppy
drives)
A few years ago I picked up an old laser show IMSAI 8080 system with
Micropolis 5.25" drives and this OS (MDOS). It came with editor and
assembler programs, so I've run it a couple of times to create an assembly
language program to transfer the contents of the hard sectored floppies over
serial line to a terminal program on my Mac for archiving. There were
several included subroutines for accessing the drive that made the job
easier.
Richard Lynch