HP 150 stiffies - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

9 May 1998

On May 9, 22:12, Frank McConnell wrote:
...
  I think the real contemporary stiffies for those early
drives didn't
 have the spring to pull the door closed.  But I've never actually seen
 one -- they didn't last very long, in fact by the time we got a loaner
 demo 150 at that PPOE (early-mid 1983) the diskette stiffy doors were
 fully automatic. 
The first Apricot computers in the UK, and Sony wordprocessor systems, both
used single-sided stiffies, with the catch for the shutter.  They did have
the spring, though.  I've still got a few.  The Sony systems used a
proprietary format that I never had details of, but the Apricot used a
variant of MS-DOS with 9 sectors per track, but only 70 tracks (315K/disk).
 The Apricot disks were a delicate shade of disgusting red, to match the
colour of the company logo, but the Sony ones were the blue that became
"standard".

...
  > The HP 150's touchscreen is pretty cool.  Is
there a driver for it that
 > emulates a mouse?  IIRC, this Mac-like box predates the Mac, doesn't it?

i had one for awhile, but missing the keyboard, so I gave it to someone
else (who had a keyboard).  Anybody got a system disk they could make an
image of?

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York