8 Nov
2006
8 Nov
'06
7:21 p.m.
I thought the Altos 586 was a Z-80 cpm machine or am I misremembering the
one I had ages ago, kind of a "diamond" shaped case IIRC
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-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Dave Dunfield
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 3:56 AM
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: imaging XENIX disks
> I made images of the Xenix disks I have for my
Altos
> with ImageDisk and it worked for me.
Oohhh.. which Altos would this be ? I'm looking
for Xenix
for my Altos 886.
It's a 586 - and unfortunately I don't have a full set of install
media - just a couple of "homemade" disks that I got with
the machine, one of which boots (IIRC).
As I understand it Altos Xenix (for the 886) at least
was quad
density disks. 80 tracks, double density. Should be able to
image them using a 1.2M 5.25" PC floppy as long as software
can understand the format (I'd think it should do it anyway).
ImageDisk has no problem reading/writing 80 track DD on
1.2M drives.
Dave
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