On 09/12/2012 03:49 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2012, Ethan Dicks wrote:
Besides the "obvious" application of
reading/writing an ordinary "DOS
Floppy" (FAT12 filesystem, "720K" or "1.44MB" capacities), and
the
uncommon higher-density floppy format, what sorts of disks from
what sort of systems would be useful to read or write with this drive?
CBM 8-bit-systems disks commonly use 256 bytes per sector, but
they aren't FM or MFM, they are GCR. Are there any CP/M systems
that used 3.5" media that this could read or write disks for?
I don't
have convenient access today to my files; I don't remember for
sure which of these were CP/M, but there were a few:
Amacom/Amada ; used for some CNC, even currently!
Apricot F1 ?
Apricot DS ?
Apricot was a Apple clone if memory serves.
AT&T WP7700 SS ?
AT&T WP7700 DS ?
Bondwell 2 ?
CDI DOT ?
CPT CP/M-80 ?
Depends, I"ve seen both CP/M and MSDOS version differing in cpu
used.
Digitech ?
Epson Geneva PX-8 (40T/Side) (67.5 TPI You would
need to double step,
and might not be able to RE-write (like using a 1.2M drive for 360K))
The PX-8 was
definitely a CP/M machine and I have three. the 3.5" disk
unit was
a "normal" format that could be read on PC hardware.
HP 3.5 CP/M
IBS BTCE ?
Jonos
Mitsubishi A6GPP ?
Mountain Side MSC-ICO ?
NEC 8201
It ran cpm and maybe MSX.
In the list..
There were a lot of wild flyers out there. Some were sorta clones and some
tweaked private label units.
Allison
Netway 1500 SSDD ?
Netway 1500 DSDD ?
Olivetti ETV-250 ?
Panasonic KXE700 ?
Sanyo MBC 4050 ?
Sears (Nakajima) WP ?
Silver Reed CS1000 ?
Sony M35 CP/M SS
Sony M35 CP/M DS
Sony SMC70 3.5
Spectravideo SV738 X'PRESS ?
Tandy 600 ?
Xscripe CP/M