Looking for Heath H89 software and some advice

From: Dave Baggett <dmb_at_itasoftware.com>
Date: Wed Dec 1 17:38:57 1999

Tony Duell wrote:

>As regards getting more hard sectored disks, I've not found a source.

Actually, I found a place on the web today (about 10 miles from my
house, amusingly) that can make 10-track hard sector floppies. They
say it will take 3-4 weeks, but were willing to sell me some for $1 a
piece, or cheaper for quantities of 5000 or more. :)
Here's their web address: http://www.athana.com

On the subject of the nonbooting HDOS disks, I don't think there's
anything wrong with the machine (I have two separate machines
exhibiting the same behavior, after all) -- I think the disks are just very
borderline. I adjusted the rotational speed on one of the H89's
(it should be 200 according to my Heath manual) and then was able
to get one of the HDOS disks to almost boot. But part way through the
boot sequence it gets some unpleasant error and complains. So I
suspect that if I had a fresh copy of an HDOS disk it would boot.
Still don't know why the CP/M disks fared better, but perhaps they're
a bit younger...

Dave
Received on Wed Dec 01 1999 - 17:38:57 GMT

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