13 Oct
2020
13 Oct
'20
8:07 p.m.
RX01 format is a standard IBM format used by many
systems, including
many CP/M ones, so it was possible to buy pre-formatted disks.? Maybe
they came that way.
That may be it: The Elephant disk does say on the factory label: Single
sided, single density, IBM compatible, 128 bytes, 26 sectors. So
something like that will INIT on an RX01? Maybe that was it, if so weird
mystery solved.
The other disks from Solarex are not looking good. Some of them have
paper copies of directories, and they seemed to be using the FD: driver.
Now I believe Solarex was running TSX on their systems, is FD: just
TSX's way of saying DY? If not anyone need a bunch of 8 inch floppy disks?
Thanks for the help on this one. If the PDT really can't do formatting
then maybe I'll just stick it back in the closet for another 20-30
years. It's an odd duck, but a cute odd duck....
CZ