laptops and 5.25 inch floppy drives?

[Fred Cisin]

On Tue, 9 Jan 2007, Chris M wrote:
> early version of the "Deluxe" Option Board (were all
> them designated Deluxe?).
No

> It uses all discrete logic.
That would be the non-deluxe.  It doesn't handle as wide a range of data
transfer rate as the Deluxe.  Sorry.

> I was pointed to a site that had all or most of the
> associated warez, but I've yet to try it out.
The programming data that is there is not completely accurate,
some of the reasons for which I will not go into now.

>  If it wasn't obvious, the underlying subject of this
> part of thread is how to deal with the lack of a
> Victor 9000 boot floppy.
Yikes.

>  It's been a while *obviously* but aren't the means to
> format individual tracks embedded in the rom-bios?

Sure.
If you can boot the Victor, then you can format disks with it, and even
make a boot disk.