George:
The emulator presently supports two formats using only an emulated 88-DSK
controller. First is the base Altair disk format with a capacity of about
337k. This format is also used for CP/M 2.2 (although the sector size is
different). The second is a special 1mb "large disk" CP/M format.
The project screams for a hard drive setup but there were very few at the
time. So, that's why we came up with the 1mb large disk CP/M format.
Rich
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From: George Leo Rachor Jr. [mailto:george@rachors.com]
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 7:21 PM
To: rcini(a)optonline.net; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic
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Subject: Re: Altair hard disk system
Rich, and others..
I have a set of formatted disks from this era for the Altair but no
hardware available.
I saw the Altair emulator project. I'll someday either need to get real
hardware <grin: not likley> or a way to get my diskettes imaged such that
I can access their contents from the emulator.
What does the emulator currently support in the way of disk images?
George Rachor
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George L. Rachor Jr. george(a)rachors.com
Hillsboro, Oregon
http://rachors.com
United States of America Amateur Radio : KD7DCX
On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Richard A. Cini wrote:
Hello all:
I found this on eBay today:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4193&item=51…
rd=1
Does anyone have any information on this? This is the first time
I've seen this unit. Maybe something to emulate...
Thanks.
Rich
Rich Cini
Collector of classic computers
Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
Web site:
http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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