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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