Kaypro System disks?
Chuck Guzis
cclist at sydex.com
Wed Jul 8 14:02:52 CDT 2009
On 8 Jul 2009 at 12:56, Doc Shipley wrote:
> I have an old Compaq Presario (75MHz Pentium) whose on-board FDC at
> least reads Cromemco diskettes without problems and writes readable,
> bootable diskettes for a Kaypro 2 with factory ROMs. I can look up the
> model # tonight if anyone wants to know.
I count something like 7 common Cromemco formats--and, as Fred notes,
there was tremendous variability among them.
On a P75 system, the FDC has been buried in the entrails of of "Super
I/O" chip or even buried in a corner of a "Southbridge chip", such as
an Intel 82371.
--Chuck
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