E-Over Pay strikes again! original Altair disk sells for

From: Doug Duchene <dougdu_at_MICROSOFT.com>
Date: Wed Feb 10 23:18:25 1999

Not true!

Altair Mini-Disk BASIC was distributed on 5 1/4" hard-sectored disks with 16
sectors (not 10). The MITS controller consisted of two S-100 cards that was
mostly TTL (nothing fancy like a 1771).

- Doug

> -----Original Message-----
> From: allisonp_at_world.std.com [mailto:allisonp_at_world.std.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 7:22 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Re: E-Over Pay strikes again! original Altair disk sells for
>
>
>
> < Just remember that they're hard sectored disks with 10
> sectors. I just
> <found a box of them in a surplus store a couple of days ago.
>
> Apple or PCC/altair minifloppy? if yes then wrong. They
> were both soft
> sectored. It was the 8" altair disks that were hard sectored
> and it was 26 sectors if memory hasn't lost a bit. Somewhere in the
> junkbox is a Pertec minifloppy controller for s100 that how I know,
> it's 1771 based.
>
>
> 10 sector was most commonly Northstar* MDS.
>
> Allison
>
Received on Wed Feb 10 1999 - 23:18:25 GMT