Floppy recovery

On January 5, 2016 3:30:11 PM CST, Ethan Dicks <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote: so, is it believed that that is a picture of an actual machine involved? because that machine looks EXACTLY like a CP/M machine we built here in MN around 1979 at a company called Multi-Tech Systems (the modem people). It was a clone of a design done by another company called R2E which I seem to remember being French. The system initially used Micropolis 77 track, 100 TPI drives and a Micropolis controller design that was also used in Vector Graphic machines. Toward the end of that product's life at Multi-Tech, it had been upgraded to a GCR controller, with the same drives, and that controller had more horsepower than the host machine it plugged into :-). Machine was called MT-500 and was 64K Z80 at 4 MHz with (4) S-100 slots on the single board. Video was 8275 CRT controller and the tubes were usually amber. I still have one of these machines but without the ~40 lb cabinet it was usually built in. Sure looks similar to me. -- Chris Elmquist