18 Apr
2005
18 Apr
'05
3:51 p.m.
Joe wrote:
The Amigo protocall is for floppy disk drives!
I wrote:
I don't think that it was exclusively for floppy
drive,
Joe wrote:
No it's not EXCLUSIVELY for the floppy drives but
that's what it was
desinged for.
I don't think so. It was designed for the Amigo computer, AKA HP-300,
which is why it's called Amigo protocol.
IIRC, the HP-300 didn't even *have* floppy drives. It had an internal
hard drive, and I think it was possible to add more externally.
The Computer History Museum recently got an Amigo, and Ken Sumrall,
Stan Sieler, and I would like to run it someday. Anybody got docs
(beyond what's already on bitsavers) or software?
Eric