What is a Sirius?

From: Peter Pachla <peter.pachla_at_vectrex.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Tue Jul 6 11:46:15 1999

Hi Tony,

>Are you sure about the MFM format? I can't see any obvious way to make
>the hardwaare do that....

The floppy controller DEFINITELY doesn't do MFM as standard.

A chap in the UK Sirius User Group once told me that there was a board in
development which would replace the standard floppy controller to allow the
machine to read and write IBM format (360K and 1.2Mb) discs.

He claimed to have one of the prototypes and that it never made it to the
market - probably because the new controller wouldn't read/write the old style
GCR discs. :-(


  TTFN - Pete.

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