Kaypro System disks?

Gordon JC Pearce gordonjcp at gjcp.net
Sat Jul 4 04:22:09 CDT 2009


On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 11:19 -0700, Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Allison wrote:
> > I have a 4/84 with turborom, disk personality card and 1MB Ramdisk
> > and it've very nice with four drives.  One is 40track 2sided, the other
> > two are fitted to the other half height slot and are two 3.5" floppies at
> > 720k/781k as there are a few formats that get a bit more on a disk.
> > The forth is tucked inside and used to hold stuff I always need.
> 
> That is a sweet setup.
> 
> > Head selection is not by the FDC (1793) but by a port.  The FDC for side 2
> > is programmed as if it were side 1.  A bit odd but there are worse.
> 
> not a very serious oddity, but worth mentioning, to alert anybody writing
> conversion software on a PC that they will have to go slightly below INT13
> and talk to the 765.
> Yes, there were some other formats that got SERIOUSLY weird.

Ensoniq Mirage, single-sided double-density with five 1024-byte sectors
followed by one 512-byte sector.

I still can't figure out how to format such a thing on a PC.

Gordon



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