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From: Jim Durham <durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us>
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Jim Bryant wrote:
> 
> In reply:
> > Chuck Robey wrote:
> > (snip!)
> > > floppy into the drive, do a DIR.  I take that floppy out, put another one
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > (Also, control-c should reset it on DOS without all the grief).8)
> 
> I thought that was for CP/M ???!!!  At least the CP/M on my old Vector
> 5005 S-100 box used to do it that way on a disk change :^)
> 
(snip!)
> [three terminals, 192k bank-switched [16k x 1's], multi-user CP/M,
> three serial ports, Centronics port, 16 [hard] sectored 5.25" floppy
> drive, ST-506 hard drive [whopping 5 Megs!], 18 S-100 slots,
> well-filtered power supply with a transformer bigger than most US Navy
> anchors, on a blazing fast Z80B running a steamy 6 MHz]!!!
(snip!)
I believe it works on DOS also (hmmmm...ever look at DOS 1.0 vis-a-vis
CP/M?)..
(My  old CP/M box was an Altair with Persci 8 inchers and a Tarbell
controller.)

-Jim Durham