26 Dec
2012
26 Dec
'12
3:46 p.m.
From: Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com>
On 12/26/2012 02:48 PM, Chris Tofu wrote:
C: what about the S* 801? Do you mean the AHA-1522A or
-B or does it not matter?
Is 5"? what you get when you wash an SA-801 in hot water and then tumble-dry it??
(That's okay--I found a forum that identified the DW floppies as 12"...)? :)
?C: Oi whatever model we were talking about the other day. 802? Whatever the Intel MDS box
has.
What Al means is a controller with a DP8473 FDC in it.? The SCSI part doesn't matter.?
But the 8473 handles FM quite nicely--and it's available on standalone FDCs such as
the DTK Mini-micro as well as numerous MFM, RLL, SCSI and ESDI hard disk controllers with
support for floppies.? Ultrastor is another brand that comes to mind.
C: is the feature necessary for reading likely hum drum ms-dos (*not* IBM compatible)
formats? Neither the NEC APC, Canon AS-100, nor IBM Displaywriter used that nasty little
thing.