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

From: Bill Sudbrink <bill_at_chipware.com>
Date: Tue Jan 19 09:45:12 1999

> >> 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.

There were several alternate OSs. The best was OK-DOS by AOK Computers of
Silver Spring Maryland. Supported several alternate disk formats and hard
disk controllers. Vastly improved graphics and keyboard compatibility.

Bill Sudbrink
Received on Tue Jan 19 1999 - 09:45:12 GMT