Kaypro System disks?

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Fri Jul 3 13:19:09 CDT 2009


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.

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Grumpy Ol' Fred     		cisin at xenosoft.com


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