2 Feb
1999
2 Feb
'99
6:09 p.m.
A few weeks ago we were talking about the Sanyo 550 series and someone
mentioned one of the alternates operating systems that supported 80 track
drives in the 550. I said that was DS-DOS by Michtron.
Today I found an old Sanyo disk package with four disks for the 550. One
of them is DS DOS 2.11, one is InfoStar, one is MailMerge/SpellStar and the
other is a disk of misc utilities. The first three are original disks. In
additon, the InfoStar, MailMerge/SpellStar are Sanyo labeled disks that
came with the 550. If anyone wants them, trade me something I can use and
they're all your's.
Joe
2 Feb
2 Feb
6:33 p.m.
Please consider making disk images (teledisk, nwdos diskimage, etc.) of
these before parting with them; there are many many folks who can't find
the o/s and they would surely like copies (including us)
Michael Grigoni
Cybertheque Museum
Joe wrote:
A few weeks ago we were talking about the Sanyo 550 series and someone
mentioned one of the alternates operating systems that supported 80 track
drives in the 550. I said that was DS-DOS by Michtron.
Today I found an old Sanyo disk package with four disks for the 550. One
of them is DS DOS 2.11, one is InfoStar, one is MailMerge/SpellStar and the
other is a disk of misc utilities. The first three are original disks. In
additon, the InfoStar, MailMerge/SpellStar are Sanyo labeled disks that
came with the 550. If anyone wants them, trade me something I can use and
they're all your's.
Joe
11:55 p.m.
At 06:33 PM 2/2/99 -0600, you wrote:
Please consider making disk images (teledisk, nwdos
diskimage, etc.) of
these before parting with them; there are many many folks who can't find
the o/s and they would surely like copies (including us)
Michael Grigoni
Cybertheque Museum
I will if the PC will read these disks. The originals shouldn't be a
problem but some of the copies may be in Michtron's bastardized 80 track 10
sector format. Is there any place that's keeping an archive of MS-DOS
stuff like Don does for the CPM stuff?
Joe
3 Feb
3 Feb
11:19 a.m.
Joe wrote:
At 06:33 PM 2/2/99 -0600, you wrote:
Shouldn't teledisk handle this ok? Even DOS's 'driver.sys' should
allow the physical geometry to be set for the source drive IIRC.
Michael Grigoni
Cybertheque Museum
Please consider making disk images (teledisk,
nwdos diskimage, etc.) of
these before parting with them; there are many many folks who can't find
the o/s and they would surely like copies (including us)
Michael Grigoni
Cybertheque Museum
I will if the PC will read these disks. The originals shouldn't be a
problem but some of the copies may be in Michtron's bastardized 80 track 10
sector format. Is there any place that's keeping an archive of MS-DOS
stuff like Don does for the CPM stuff?
Joe 
2:35 p.m.
Joe wrote:
I will if the PC will read these disks. The originals shouldn't be a
problem but some of the copies may be in Michtron's bastardized 80 track 10
sector format. Is there any place that's keeping an archive of MS-DOS
stuff like Don does for the CPM stuff?
I certainly do not keep it all - nor want to - but I do keep some of the
older semi/non-compatible DOS stuff, Joe.
- don
4:12 p.m.
On 2 Feb 99 at 23:55, Joe wrote:
At 06:33 PM 2/2/99 -0600, you wrote:
If you have an Atari ST, I would suspect you could read the 80/10 disks using
Fast-copy or Pro-copy. ST's can read write to PCs and the prgs. mentioned
allowed changing track and sector sizes. Michtron was a major supplier of stuff
for the ST.
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com
Please consider making disk images (teledisk,
nwdos diskimage, etc.) of
these before parting with them; there are many many folks who can't find
the o/s and they would surely like copies (including us)
Michael Grigoni
Cybertheque Museum
I will if the PC will read these disks. The originals shouldn't be a
problem but some of the copies may be in Michtron's bastardized 80 track 10
sector format. Is there any place that's keeping an archive of MS-DOS
stuff like Don does for the CPM stuff?
Joe
4 Feb
4 Feb
12:17 a.m.
At 10:12 PM 2/3/99 +0000, you wrote:
On 2 Feb 99 at 23:55, Joe wrote:
using
At 06:33 PM 2/2/99 -0600, you wrote:
If you have an Atari ST, I would suspect you could read the 80/10 disks
Please consider making disk images (teledisk,
nwdos diskimage, etc.) of
these before parting with them; there are many many folks who can't find
the o/s and they would surely like copies (including us)
Michael Grigoni
Cybertheque Museum
I will if the PC will read these disks. The originals shouldn't be a
problem but some of the copies may be in Michtron's bastardized 80 track 10
sector format. Is there any place that's keeping an archive of MS-DOS
stuff like Don does for the CPM stuff?
Joe
Fast-copy or Pro-copy. ST's can read write to PCs
and the prgs. mentioned
allowed changing track and sector sizes. Michtron was a major supplier of
stuff
for the ST.
Larry,
No, I don't have an Atari. I didn't know about the Michtron connection.
Thanks for the info.
Joe
5:28 a.m.
Joe wrote:
I will if the PC will read these disks. The
originals shouldn't be a
problem but some of the copies may be in Michtron's bastardized 80 track 10
sector format. Is there any place that's keeping an archive of MS-DOS
stuff like Don does for the CPM stuff?
It should, back in the days when DS-DOS was going away I was making copies on
my 286 and sending them over BBS routes. Besides I believe a stock 360k drive
can read them for booting on a Say-no.
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