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- From: chrismc@flip.eecs.umich.edu (Chris McCormack)
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- Subject: Re: Can BBR start from a 1581?
- Date: 9 Feb 1996 13:02:48 GMT
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- Guillermo Alvarez (galvarez@cs.ucsd.edu) wrote:
- : The Big Blue Reader doesn't boot from a 1541 drive, because they're
- : probably using some wacky accelerator routines.
- : It definitely loads from a 1571, but can I boot it from a 1581?
- : If so, how do you create the 3.5" disk containing the BBR - just a
- : file-by-file copy?
-
- I regularly run my copy of BBR from my 1581 (I'm not sure which
- version I have - I think I missed at least on upgrade along the line).
- In fact, the program is even well behaved about running on device #9
- instead of device #8.
- Chris McCormack / n0oqt
- chrismc@eecs.umich.edu
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