memory refresher on PUTR - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Oct 2003

On Oct 6,  9:21, Jay West wrote:

...
  I believe it was a program called PUTR that I used on
a PC to read/write
...
  5.25 floppy disks to exchange data with my PDP-11/23
that had an RX50 drive
...
  in it. Should the PC drive be a 360k floppy or a 1.2m
floppy? 
Ideally, neither: 80-track double density.  An RX50 is only
single-sided (80 tracks, 10 sectors of 512 bytes per track), but
obviously a double-sided drive will do, and that includes a "1.2M"
drive if it's capable of doing DD as well as HD.

...
  Wonder if there is some story as to the history of
"disc" vs. "disk" :) HP
...
  always used "disc". 
"disc" is from the Greek "discus", and is (or was, until recently)
the
more commonly accepted English spelling; "disk" is an Americanism which
has spread to the UK.  Acorn always used "disc" as well.

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