Xerox 820 system disks in Teledisk format?

bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca bfranchuk at jetnet.ab.ca
Mon May 4 16:57:55 CDT 2009


js at cimmeri.com wrote:
> 
> 
> Dave Dunfield wrote:
>>> Title says it.  I can only find them in Imagedisk format, but IMD 
>>> does not recognize my Compaticard IV (why on earth does it restrict 
>>> you to drives A-D??).
>>>     
>>
>> Why on earth did IBM define the PC with only enough bits in the drive 
>> select/
>> motor on register for 4 drives ... A-D are the standard drives 
>> suspported by
>> the hardware -- anything else needs "special drivers" and I'm just not 
>> going
>> there... But you can get a full refund with the "DELETE" command so 
>> all is
>> not lost.
> 
> Yeah, and anyway, 4 drives ought to be more than enough for anybody! lol.

With 180 KB per disk. :)

> jS





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