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20 Sep 93
Wes, enclosed the disks that you requested. I think that the
Eagle II, TRS Model II, and Kaypro UniForm are pretty much self
explanatory. The Sierra is a little more complex, as some of
their commands are not altogether common. For example, PUT is
the harddisk equivalent of SYSGEN. Density is used to set the
density of the floppy disk drive; e.g. DENSITY M:=S sets the
floppy disk drive for Single Density, M:=D would set it for
Double Density, and M:=X for Extended Density. 'X' connotes
double sided drives, and is unavailable to you until you install
a double sided disk drive. I might note that there are some
advantages in staying with the Single Density floppies. Despite
the limited storage space - 241K - they are in standard IBM 3740
format and readable by a considerable number of machines. The
Double Density, on the other hand, utilizes a double density
recorded 128 byte sector that cannot be handled by a number of
floppy disk controller chips.
As regards Turbo Pascal, I find that the version that I have is
2.00 - rather far removed from 3.01A!
Enjoy your machines. If I can be of further assistance, let me
hear from you.
- don