3.5" Altair CP/M

[Grant Stockly]

At 03:19 PM 6/3/2007, you wrote:
>Grant,
>
>I think this is a cool idea.
>I'd like to help out in any way I can.
>Either with the design, schematics, etc.

Getting a drive working with MITS software?

I have a lot of MITS software on 8" hard sectored disks and I would like to 
move that onto other disks without having to modify boot code.  One example 
is MITS Music Basic, or the Music Operating System.  I found someone who 
has it and it is in the "FedEx" right now.  : )  MITS was working on a 4 
voice music card and had a special version of basic written for it.  There 
is even a version of Star Trek with sound effects!

I want to be able to preserve this stuff as historically accurate as 
possible.  It would be MUCH easier to use a flash memory chip and emulate 
the entire disk subsystem at the I/O port level.  I can't seem to find any 
MMC, SD, or compact flash cards in the 1-4MB range dirt cheap.  I thought 
that with flash memory prices being low I could find some.  I want to 
retain the physical piece per disk feel and not have all the disks in one 
memory image.  So this means I have to have a cheap media source.