On May 9, 22:12, Frank McConnell wrote:
> I think the real contemporary stiffies for those early drives didn't
> have the spring to pull the door closed. But I've never actually seen
> one -- they didn't last very long, in fact by the time we got a loaner
> demo 150 at that PPOE (early-mid 1983) the diskette stiffy doors were
> fully automatic.
The first Apricot computers in the UK, and Sony wordprocessor systems, both
used single-sided stiffies, with the catch for the shutter. They did have
the spring, though. I've still got a few. The Sony systems used a
proprietary format that I never had details of, but the Apricot used a
variant of MS-DOS with 9 sectors per track, but only 70 tracks (315K/disk).
The Apricot disks were a delicate shade of disgusting red, to match the
colour of the company logo, but the Sony ones were the blue that became
"standard".
> > The HP 150's touchscreen is pretty cool. Is there a driver for it that
> > emulates a mouse? IIRC, this Mac-like box predates the Mac, doesn't
it?
i had one for awhile, but missing the keyboard, so I gave it to someone
else (who had a keyboard). Anybody got a system disk they could make an
image of?
--
Pete Peter Turnbull
Dept. of Computer Science
University of York
Received on Sun May 10 1998 - 04:51:31 BST