Comterm Hyperion - Boot disk?

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Mon Dec 14 13:34:16 1998

On Mon, 14 Dec 1998 Innfogra_at_aol.com wrote:

> Looking at the June 83 ad for the Hyperion I noticed that it has 320K drives
> instead of 360K. If I remember right the 320K format is 7 sector not 8 sector
> drives.

No, it is 8 sector instead of 9 sector disk format. The drives are no
different!
                                                 - don
 
> I propose an experiment even though I too, believe it takes a special version
> of DOS. Get an old PC and format a DOS disk at the 320K format using ver 2.11.
> Transfer the system and see what happens.
>
> Paxton
>

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