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

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Thu Feb 11 09:22:54 1999

Ok so Sam will have to punch a few more holes.

  My Altair has the NorthStar controller. It's one card of TTL chips and
uses a 5 1/4" drive. I'm fairly sure it uses 10 sector disks (same as the
North Stars) but I don't it working yet so I'm not positive about the
number of sectors.

   BTW I found a box of 10 sectored disks. Some of the are labeled
"MASCOM". Does anybody know what MASCOM is?

   Joe

At 09:18 PM 2/10/99 -0800, you wrote:
>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 Thu Feb 11 1999 - 09:22:54 GMT