10 Feb
1999
10 Feb
'99
3:18 p.m.
Not true!
Altair Mini-Disk BASIC was distributed on 5 1/4" hard-sectored disks with 16
sectors (not 10). The MITS controller consisted of two S-100 cards that was
mostly TTL (nothing fancy like a 1771).
- Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: allisonp(a)world.std.com [mailto:allisonp@world.std.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 7:22 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Re: E-Over Pay strikes again! original Altair disk sells for
< Just remember that they're hard sectored disks with 10
sectors. I just
<found a box of them in a surplus store a couple of days ago.
Apple or PCC/altair minifloppy? if yes then wrong. They
were both soft
sectored. It was the 8" altair disks that were hard sectored
and it was 26 sectors if memory hasn't lost a bit. Somewhere in the
junkbox is a Pertec minifloppy controller for s100 that how I know,
it's 1771 based.
10 sector was most commonly Northstar* MDS.
Allison