17 Mar
2002
17 Mar
'02
3:21 p.m.
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Tony Duell wrote:
Standard Operating Procedure.
Which bits in particular are you having problems with?
Much of this
doesn't matter for your problem (because by your good luck everything is
compatible), but you might want to understand it all anyway.
Why it was germane to the issue at hand? I understand, at least
generally, the mechanics and relative formats of the drives and disks
involved, but the ongoing discussion was getting me to think there were
issues that I was completely missing.
I must admit I got no clue what an "Oerstedt" is. Or why I need to
know....
Will the
1.2M drive write reliable QD disks? Note that I said "write
reliable" not "reliably write". Several tries is no biggie.
Yes, it should be able to. But if you're in doubt, but can make a disk
which works (albeit that it might go unreliable in a month's time), just
back it up on the target machine. When I transfered some LS-DOS disk images to physical
disks for my TRS-80
Model 4, I had to write them on an 80 cylinder drive (the 1.2M drive on
this PC). I then backed them up to genuine 40 cylinder disks on the Model
4. Incidentally, I've never had any real problems writing TRS-80 40 or 80
cylinder images on a PC.
Kewl. I'm gonna have one someday. A TRS-80, that is.
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