Reiability of wrong media (was: is out of 5-1/4" diskettes

From: Ward D. Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com>
Date: Thu Jan 21 22:09:14 1999

I can guarantee that no 80-track drive was ever officially supported
in a Model 4 or any other Tandy Z-80 platform, no matter what the
documentation might have implied once TRSDOS-6 (and LDOS) became
official products. That's like letting on that OS-9 Level One could
be used by more than one person on the same 64k TRS-80 Color Computer
the way I demonstrated in my classroom in the Radio Shack Computer in
downtown Los Angeles back in 1984. (Or was that late '83? Damn, this
senility is a bitch to deal with -- the AT was still vapourware).

Ward Griffiths
"the timid die just like the daring; and if you don't take the plunge then
you'll just take the fall" Michael Longcor

On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Tony Duell wrote:

> [80 track 5.25" disks]

> drives around here, but also looking about I see a lot of 80 track drives
> - TRS-80 model 4, Sirius, Gemini, BBC micros, Torch XXX, etc, etc. The
Received on Thu Jan 21 1999 - 22:09:14 GMT

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