Halleluyah! Hooray! Eureka! Success! (OS-65U)

From: Bill Sudbrink <bill_at_chipware.com>
Date: Fri Dec 18 11:39:25 1998

A few of you may know that one of my first postings to
Usenet (alt.folklore.computers) was a request for a copy
of Ohio Scientific's OS-65U 6502 operating system. I
have been looking for it since 1993. Well, Santa came
to me a little early today in the form of the UPS man
and I have here in my hand (well, sitting on the desk
next to me) a factory original set of 8 inch floppies
of OS-65U! Level 1 version 1.44 CD-23 revision. I also
have demo disks, and level 1 v 1.2 CD-7 revision. I
think to myself, "My quest is over."

Now the real work begins.

I own six 8 inch floppy drives that came with OSI machines.
None of them have had a disk in them since I have owned
them (I haven't had one to put in them until now!).

three are:
Siemens FDD 200-8P

one is:
Shugart Model 801

the other two are in a box, I'll have to check later.

One of the Siemens has the gold face plate I mentioned in
another post. The Siemens look like double sided drives,
the Shugart is definitely a single sided drive. Nothing
on the disks indicate single or double sided. I think
they are soft sectored (only one index hole). How should
I proceed? Could I get full repair and calibration
instructions for these drives? Does anybody have an 8 inch
set up that can read and duplicate most formats? Maybe recover
questionable/compromised data on the disks?

Thanks,
Bill Sudbrink
Received on Fri Dec 18 1998 - 11:39:25 GMT