9 Mar
2007
9 Mar
'07
1:06 p.m.
On 9 Mar 2007 at 8:58, Chris M wrote:
The 9801 (in it's various flavors) was available
in
the US?
Yes and no. It was buried in a lot of Japanese lab equipment and
some industrial stuff that was imported here to the extent that we
did a small business in equipping PeeCees with diskette-handling
ability for the 9801.
If you have a USB floppy or IDE Superdrive on your system, it
probably handles DOS-V diskettes without so much as blinking. I know
that Win2K handles the format just fine, but won't let you format
diskettes in DOS-V format.
There was an enterprise down in San Diego who could obtain just about
anything from a complete 9801 system to parts and doucmentation. All
gone now.
Cheers,
Chuck