From: tih at hamartun.priv.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo)
Subject: [COFF] Old non-Unix software and manuals.
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 13:55:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2h7yjyyly.fsf@thuvia.hamartun.priv.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfpUqLdihsH488qGk4jy+mJ7RcKUnAS0KWJavhmSWZDiJA@mail.gmail.com> (Warner Losh's message of "Sun, 8 Mar 2020 21:39:11 -0600")
Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> writes:
> That's why I got a kyroflux... too hard to find an old enough pc that
> the floppy controller supports the full range of crazy that once
> roamed the earth...
For the record: the Adaptec 1542B ISA bus SCSI controller includes a
floppy controller that's compatible with the one in the original PC, and
which can be programmed in minute detail for tracks, sectors,
interleaving, inter-sector gaps, and so forth.
I used one of those and a modified NetBSD floppy driver to create boot
floppies for my Osborne 1, after downloading images off the net. :)
-tih
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Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-08 20:22 peter
2020-03-08 20:30 ` krewat
2020-03-09 7:30 ` lars
2020-03-08 20:34 ` imp
2020-03-08 21:16 `
2020-03-08 22:32 ` wobblygong
2020-03-08 23:07 ` spedraja
2020-03-09 22:10 ` dave
2020-03-08 23:48 ` wkt
2020-03-09 3:18 ` dave
2020-03-09 3:39 ` imp
2020-03-09 4:18 ` dave
2020-03-20 12:55 ` tih [this message]
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