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- From: ujlh@pool.info.sunyit.edu (James Henrickson)
- Subject: Re: Any use for 4-floppy controllers?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.171759.15351@pool.info.sunyit.edu>
- Organization: State University of New York -- Institute of Technology
- References: <Jim_Johnson.07l7@abcd.Houghton.MI.US>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:17:59 GMT
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- In article <Jim_Johnson.07l7@abcd.Houghton.MI.US> Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson) writes:
- >Another use for the 4-floppy controller is that some tape drives can run as
- >a floppy drive.
- >
- >-- Via DLG Pro v0.995
- >
- >Jim Johnson-
- >*** Remember, they're only tools - Not a way of life! ***
-
- I know a guy that occassionally like to read files from floppies that
- were written by different operating systems. One example was (I think)
- CP/M. He had drive A: set up as an MSDOS 360K unit, and drive B: was
- a 720K unit, and he used a device driver for drive D: that really read
- CP/M disks in drive A:. If he had a 4-floppy controller, he could
- leave his CP/M disk in the third floppy, use the device driver, and not
- have to worry about having the wrong disk type in the drive. :-)
-
- --
- Jim H.
- *
- * James L. Henrickson
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