Talking about disks for the Mattel Aquarius...
Tony wrote...
>on one edge. On the 3.5" disk the shutter can be easily opened
>accidentally, and more importantly it can spring apart on the inside
>edge.
[snip/snip]
OK, the floppies I have are NOT as described in Tony's last letter. These
here disks are 77mm square, and do NOT have a shutter protecting the surface
of the disk. I am sure the shutter is not missing; I have 10 disks all
the same. From the circular midsection with a rectangular opening all the
way to the edge, the access area on this disk looks like a large keyhole.
Yet, the style is similar to a standard 3.5" floppy
A side-note; these disks are advertised at having 144K unformatted
capacity. Those interested can see the disks and drive at...
http://www.comcen.com.au/~adavie/weird/aquarius/aqdisk.jpghttp://www.comcen.com.au/~adavie/weird/aquarius/floppy.jpg
I understand the drive is top-opening, like a CD-player, but I've yet to
confirm this. I wonder if anybody knows of any other drives with this
mechanism (floppies only!!)
Cheers
A
;-) Clearing the snow from my glasses, I saw Kai Kaltenbach typed:
>There is no way to read Apple II disks in a PC. Your options are:
[snip]
>2. Obtain an "Apple II-on-an-ISA-card" device (rare, no longer manufactured,
>various brand names)
Tho I'm not much of an Apple person (unless someone would like to send me a
G3 for free... ;-) there is a place on the web that has some "Diamond
Trackstar //e" boards for sale -- for $19 each (plus shipping, I believe).
Dunno if that's a good price or not (or if the nomenclature is totally
correct -- again, apologies for not being an Apple Nut -- CoCoNut is more
my style) but it seems they have (at least) several...
For the Webulators: http://www.ahhz.com/
Hope that helps someone...
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Owner, MerchWare | nuclear warhead disarmament should
zmerch(a)northernway.net | *not* be your first career choice.
Sorry, I should have clarified. I have Ultrix 4.3 for both VAXen and RISC.
Based on the responses I've gotten so far, it'll end up being built around
BSD 4.2-4.3, yes?
I'm asking because I'll be book-shopping before too much longer, and I've
had my eye on the O'Reilly books 'Unix in a Nutshell' and 'Essential System
Administration.' Both seem to strike a balance between SCO and BSD.
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Hi all.
It's come to my attention that there's some discussion on
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I encourage you to organize as you desire, by whatever
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I will continue to do basic list maintenance as much
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Please don't count on me for anything at this point. I
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If current arrangements are unworkable and someone else
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If you can live with the current level of administration,
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Hello, I am new to the list and despite all this nonsencse about some guy
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listening in and to ask a few questions when they arrive to my brain.
Later,
-Enrique!
There is no way to read Apple II disks in a PC. Your options are:
1. Serial transfer
2. Obtain an "Apple II-on-an-ISA-card" device (rare, no longer manufactured,
various brand names)
3. If you have access to a Mac, and have a 3 1/2" drive on the Apple II, you
can transfer the disk files to ProDOS format and read them via the
Macintosh, then either write them to PC format with a Mac SuperDrive, or
read the Mac disks on the PC with the various utilities available.
Kai
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> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 1998 4:32 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Apple - PC
>
> Is there a way to transfer files from an Apple II to a PC? I have a
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andrew davie was
:Talking about disks for the Mattel Aquarius...
yep, they're quick disks. and they probably belong in the same bucket as
sinclair's microdrive and phi mag's floopy tape (anyone else remember
this one?) - nice tries that just couldn't keep up, either in cost,
capacity or genericity.
if only our ql's microdrives still worked... they're a lovely little
storage mechanism to look at.
--
Communa (together) we remember... we'll see you falling
you know soft spoken changes nothing to sing within her...
Sam Ismail <dastar(a)wco.com> wrote:
>This may as well be the official location since the "official" location is
>inaccessible. I hereby declare Doug's address above the new official web
>address since nobody else will.
I'll also volunteer to host a copy of the FAQ web page(s). I'll even
help edit, write or update it - but you weren't asking for a new
maintainer, were you?
>B) It doesn't get sent out to new subscribers
>C) People ignore it
There's a few ways to handle this: send out a subscribe/unsubscribe/FAQ
post every month, or put a short .signature on the digest or on every
message, for a day once every couple weeks.
- John
Jefferson Computer Museum <http://www.threedee.com/jcm>
I just finished watching that Discovery program on Robots and was
wondering if anyone involved in the list has previously/is currently
working in that field
Also, does anyone know how much of an influence the use of computer
systems by all of those AI reasearches in the late 70's/early 80's had on
system designs? I'd be interested to hear any opinions/anecdotes/etc on
this stuff.
Aaron
