5.25" Floppies on a P2 system

From: Jerome Fine <jhfine_at_idirect.com>
Date: Sun Jan 10 20:25:53 1999

>Zane H. Healy wrote:

> Actaully I don't know that 'putr' has a problem with the higher speeds, but
> apparently 'teledisk', 'anadisk', and '22disk' all have problems with
> systems faster than a 486/33.
>
> Does anyone run 'putr' on a Pentium or Pentium II? It's the utility I'm
> the most interested in being able to run. I've tried running it in DOSemu
> under Linux and that doens't seem to work.

Jerome Fine replies:

The ONLY PUTR that I am aware of is from John Wilson, the fellow
who also wrote an emulator for the PDP-11 called Eratz-11 or E11 for
short. BOTH work VERY well.

I have had a PC with a Pentium 166 MMX available to me for the past
year whenever I need to use PUTR to transfer files from either an
RX50 (5 1/4" floppy - DSDD media required), an RX33 (5 1/4" floppy
with HD PC floppy media) and an RX23 (3 1/2" HD floppy media).
Obviously the first 2 media require a 5 1/4" floppy drive on a PC which
is the HD 1.2 MByte version on the PC. The third media requires a
PC 3 1/2" 1.44 MByte floppy drive on a PC.

Does this answer address the question?

Sincerely yours,

Jerome Fine
RT-11/TSX-PLUS User/Addict
Received on Sun Jan 10 1999 - 20:25:53 GMT