Sanyo 55x detractors (was:RE: IBM Floppy...)

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Mon Jan 18 20:10:48 1999

At 05:43 PM 1/18/99 -0500, you wrote:
>Russ Blakeman [rhblake_at_bigfoot.com] wrote:
>
>> Sanyo MBC-55x-2 series had a 4 floppy controller but DOS saw only
>> A: and B: and it's hacked DOS used it quite well. The bum end of
>> it was that RAM disks and hard drives went to E: by defualt. An
>> aftermarket DOS (name escapes me now)

  DS-DOS by Michtron. I bought it. It was the buggiest piece of software
that I ever had the DIS-pleasure of owning! DS-DOS would let you use 80
track 5 1/4" drives in the Sanyo and put 10 sectors on them. =800K per disk.

    Joe
Received on Mon Jan 18 1999 - 20:10:48 GMT

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