Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:58:13 -0800 (PST)
From: Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com>
Subject: Micropolis (was: "intelligent" disk drives
Micropolis made excellent floppy drives. It is too bad
that their hard
drives sucked.
I guess I've just got some bad ones then; speed's all over the place on one
(belt's OK) and another one stopped altogether; when they were still working
a couple of months ago, read errors were pretty common, even with cleaned
heads, lubed helix screw, refreshed disks, etc.
Did anybody ever use their OS? (bundled with some of
their 5.25" floppy
drives)
MDOS? I've got a copy for my Vectors; boots, but I haven't gotten it to do
anything; could be that the diskette doesn't have anything on it of course...
Anybody know anything about this OS? Anything special that I need to
do to get it to accept commands? One that I know about is DIAG, but
that doesn't work either; just "Invalid command"s.
m