HP Portable+ disks

Tony Duell ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk
Thu Dec 30 15:07:13 CST 2010


> 
> On 30 Dec 2010 at 19:50, Tony Duell wrote:
> 
> > I wonder if Chuck (I think) got a disk formatted wit hthe /z option
> > from a Portable+ and sassumed it was the defualt?
> 
> Perhaps--I do rely on samples sent by customers.  If the customer 
> gets the product and it works just fine for them, I consider the case 
> closed.

Sure. And the Portable+ most certainly can format a disk with 1024 byte 
sectors, etc, as standard

However, it does appear that by default the HP MS-DOS machines of the 
time did have a common disk format which makes a lot more sense.

-tony




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