28 Jul
2005
28 Jul
'05
8:15 p.m.
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 18:33 +0100, Tony Duell wrote:
Further to that...
If I'm remembering right, you're not supposed to use floppies with hub-
rings on the Rainbow drives as it tends to damage the drive (and at the
very least means it'll no longer read disks without hub rings properly)
cheers
Jules
I just acquired a Rainbow with ~10 boxes of disks.
Most are for DOS it seems, though some for cpm/86.
Could someone explain the differences between the
types of media meant to run on this puter, whether it
has to do with os, or physical properties (soft
sectored, hard sectored, RX50...). I also have access
The RX50 drive (used in the Rainbow, and for that matter the Pro) is a 80
cylinder single-sided drive. The Rainbow (and Pro) have soft-sectored
double-density controllers, and store about 360K on each disk.
These parameters are independant of the OS used.