Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 23:17:23 -0500 (CDT) From: Jim Bryant <jbryant@argus> To: durham@w2xo.pgh.pa.us (Jim Durham) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: floppy disks Message-ID: <199704160417.XAA13057@argus> In-Reply-To: <33544F1B.3F54BC7E@w2xo.pgh.pa.us> from "Jim Durham" at Apr 16, 97 00:01:31 am
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In reply: > 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?).. i'd rather not remember dog-1.0, although i still have a copy somewhere... it even runs on this system... > (My old CP/M box was an Altair with Persci 8 inchers and a Tarbell > controller.) xeyes -bg black -fg red -center envygreen & i toggled bootstrap on my neighbor's altair-8800 once when i was a kid... aren't keyboards great! :^) jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you | "I will not be pushed, stamped, think otherwise, then go jump into turbid | briefed, debriefed, indexed, or radioactive waters and yell WAHOO !!! | numbered!" - #1, "The Prisoner" jbryant@tfs.net - KC5VDJ 2M, 70cm, KPC-3+ - kc5vdj@wv0t.#neks.ks.usa.noam
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