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- From: donm@crash.cts.com (Don Maslin)
- Subject: Re: **WANTED** 8 inch Floppy Controller
- Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
- Date: 06 Sep 92 22:20:40 PDT
- Message-ID: <1992Sep06.222040.561@crash>
- References: <1992Sep6.002355.18646@dorsai.com>
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- Probably, the best way is to get the FDC CompatiCard from MicroSolutions
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- Micro Solutions, Inc.
- 132 West Lincoln Hwy.
- DeKalb IL 60115
- (815) 756-3411
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- You will also need their program UniForm in order to read the 8" format.
- This is fairly pricey, however.
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- An alternative that should work is to use a High Density FDC - preferably,
- a four floppy one with the external drive connector - and a copy of the
- Sydex shareware program 22DISK. Sydex also publishes information on
- connecting an 8" floppy drive (50 pins) to a 34 pin FDC.
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- There are some limitations here, however. Some of the old CP/M machines
- used a 128 byte double density sector - Altos and Sierra come to mind.
- This format cannot be successfully read by the 765 FDC chip used in PCs.
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