26 Jun
2000
26 Jun
'00
11:12 a.m.
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Tony Duell wrote:
MicroSolutions apparently neglected to read the spec, as UniForm gags at
reading a disk from a PF-10 drive. Interestingly, while the spec in the
manual spells out 16 - 256 byte sectors per track, Sydex' 22Disk formats
to 9 - 512 byte sectors per track. The Geneva accepts it alright.
I lack a format program for the Geneva, so I am unable to compare
whether they changed spec or what.
- don
Incidentally, looking through old catalogues, I
found a reference to a 40
cylinder 3.5" drive. Has anyone ever seen one of those? Looks like a
chance for the same sort of incompatabilities with the normal 80 cylinder
3.5" drives as the 5.25" people experience!
Epson Geneva PX-8
~67.5 tpi
can be read by double-stepping regular "720K" drive. It probably has the
same track width problems, but I've never had a chance to try. also some models of the Tandy drive for the model 100
(I don't know
off-hand WHICH models)
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