NorthStar FDC

From: Richard Erlacher <edick_at_idcomm.com>
Date: Thu Oct 28 10:06:52 1999

I got a question the other day, and it was one about which I have no clue.
A friend glommed onto an IMSAI box with a North Star disk subsystem, the FDC
for which is a model MDS-A4. He wants to know about whether it is capable
of handling 8" drives. I didn't think to ask whether it had a 50-pin cable
header on it. That would have been too easy. My recollection is that
NorthStar systems had a hard-sectored 5-1/4" drive, usually from Micropolis,
attached, and that one was pretty dense, but wouldn't do CP/M-standard
(IBM-3740 SSSD) diskettes. Is that the case with this controller?

Dick
Received on Thu Oct 28 1999 - 10:06:52 BST