20 Nov
2001
20 Nov
'01
3:48 p.m.
I came across a stash of HardCard driver diskettes today (360K 5.25").
They say on the label that they are for the 20MB version, but I'm sure
they would work on the 40MB model as well.
Anyhoo, I have three spare copies if anyone is interested. One to each
respondent. E-mail me your address and I'll get it out to you. Don't
worry about mailing costs.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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20 Nov
4:39 p.m.
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
I came across a stash of HardCard driver diskettes today (360K 5.25").
They say on the label that they are for the 20MB version, but I'm sure
they would work on the 40MB model as well.
Anyhoo, I have three spare copies if anyone is interested. One to each
respondent. E-mail me your address and I'll get it out to you. Don't
worry about mailing costs.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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Hi Sellam,
I just ran across two brand new 40 Meg Hardcards about a month ago so
could use one of these diskettes if still available and if you think
they will use the same drivers.
Thanks,
Dan Cohoe
R.R # 2,
Burgessville, Ontario
Canada N0J 1C0
21 Nov
21 Nov
8:33 a.m.
Hello -
I could use one of these on my compaq portable with a 20 MB hardcard.
John
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 10:39:52PM -0500, Dan Cohoe wrote:
Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
I came across a stash of HardCard driver diskettes today (360K 5.25").
They say on the label that they are for the 20MB version, but I'm sure
they would work on the 40MB model as well.
Anyhoo, I have three spare copies if anyone is interested. One to each
respondent. E-mail me your address and I'll get it out to you. Don't
worry about mailing costs.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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6:01 p.m.
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, John Ott wrote:
I could use one of these on my compaq portable with a
20 MB hardcard.
Reply to me privately so I can keep track of you.
I got so many requests that I'm just going to put the drivers up on my
website so anyone who needs them can download them. I never realized so
many people would want these.
The first three people who got in requests will still get a disk.
Everyone else can roll their own :)
I'll post a message when I get those files up (probably late tonight).
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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8:32 p.m.
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Sellam Ismail wrote:
I got so many requests that I'm just going to put
the drivers up on my
website so anyone who needs them can download them. I never realized so
many people would want these.
The first three people who got in requests will still get a disk.
Everyone else can roll their own :)
I'll post a message when I get those files up (probably late tonight).
Ok, so what's the trouble with reading a 360K diskette on a 1.2MB drive?
I know we've covered this numerous times before but I'm too lazy to go
searching through the archives.
I think I'll try to fire up an old school IBM PC with a 360K drive to see
if I have better luck.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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9:05 p.m.
Sellam Ismail wrote:
Ok, so what's the trouble with reading a 360K diskette on a 1.2MB drive?
I know we've covered this numerous times before but I'm too lazy to go
searching through the archives.
The problem is with writing on a 1.2 MB drive onto a disk that has also
been written with the 360K drive, and then trying to read the resultant
mess with a 360K drive. I've never run into problems reading any 360K
diskette with a 1.2 MB drive.
22 Nov
22 Nov
12:54 a.m.
Hi,
1.2M drives write thinner tracks than 360k drives, 360k drives get
confused if you've overwritten stuff written with a 360k drive (thick
tracks) with stuff from a 1.2M drive (thin track) - you get the idea :&)
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Ok, so
what's the trouble with reading a 360K diskette on a 1.2MB drive?
I know we've covered this numerous times before but I'm too lazy to go
searching through the archives.
The problem is with writing on a 1.2 MB drive onto a disk that has also
been written with the 360K drive, and then trying to read the resultant
mess with a 360K drive. I've never run into problems reading any 360K
diskette with a 1.2 MB drive.
10:19 a.m.
On Thu, 22 Nov 2001, Marvin Johnston wrote:
Well I can't imagine all of these driver disks are bad :(
I wasn't able to read any on my PC. I'll check first to make sure the
drive is reading a known good disk, and if that's not the problem, then
I'll try reading these with an old PC. If that doesn't work, I guess
these are worthless.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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Ok, so
what's the trouble with reading a 360K diskette on a 1.2MB drive?
I know we've covered this numerous times before but I'm too lazy to go
searching through the archives.
The problem is with writing on a 1.2 MB drive onto a disk that has
also been written with the 360K drive, and then trying to read the
resultant mess with a 360K drive. I've never run into problems reading
any 360K diskette with a 1.2 MB drive. 
9:58 a.m.
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Sellam Ismail wrote:
On Wed, 21 Nov 2001, Sellam Ismail wrote:
There should be none unless these are some of the early 8-sector disks.
Absent UniForm or some similar approach a late machine will surely
choke.
I got so many requests that I'm just going to
put the drivers up on my
website so anyone who needs them can download them. I never realized so
many people would want these.
The first three people who got in requests will still get a disk.
Everyone else can roll their own :)
I'll post a message when I get those files up (probably late tonight).
Ok, so what's the trouble with reading a 360K diskette on a 1.2MB drive?
I know we've covered this numerous times before but I'm too lazy to go
searching through the archives. I think I'll try to fire up an old school IBM PC
with a 360K drive to see
if I have better luck.
More likely to be successful with the above condition.
- don
Sellam Ismail
Vintage Computer Festival
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