30 Apr
2003
30 Apr
'03
11:18 a.m.
From: "Don Maslin" <donm(a)cts.com>
On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
Hi Don
That is what I figured. I've been working on my serial
bootstrap and transfer program. I'm able to read and
write an image to the H89 but I'm still having issues
getting the formatting to work. I copied some old
code that I have in the Fig-Forth that I did but it
is still missing something. I even went back and ran
the Forth FORMAT and it works fine. I suspect there is
some other initialization that I'm missing. I looked at
one stretch of code and there is an operation that should
always hang. Can't figure why the original works. It
may be something connected to the timer interrupt that
isn't normally there. I wish I'd made good notes when
I did the original but this was one of my first computer
projects, after working on my Poly88, and brain rot
is now catching up with me.
Once I get the format working, I can work on cleaning
up the user interface. Looking at the 96 stuff is a
little later on the list.
Dwight
Hi
I've been looking at a pile of disk that I'd
collected over a period of years. Most are the
typical 10 hard sectored disk, formatted in the
same way as HDOS uses. In the pile, I found a
few that are marked "format 96". These have the
10 plus index holes but they don't seem to be
the normal format. When I attempt to read them,
I can only read the first sector. All of the rest
don't seem to read. Does anyone know what this
was all about?
Dwight
Dwight, I would assume that they were done on a 96tpi
floppy drive.
- don