Installing an operating system on an 11/83

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com
Tue Feb 22 08:47:08 CST 2022


On 2/21/22 22:27, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Feb 2022, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote:
>> I think installing 30 floppy disks would be an exercise in insanity:
> 
> No arguments there.
> 
>> That would probably wear down an RX50 drive to the nubbins.
> 
> Are RX50 drives less robust than what was used to install Windoze 95?
> 
> 

Did he say it was an RX50?  Or just a floppy.  Others were supported
like the RX33 which could read RX50 disks.  TEAC FD-55-GFR work fine
and can still be found in the wild.

bill




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