USUS library

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Fri Oct 29 16:56:41 1999

>
> I've found someone who has the entire collection of disks from USUS,
> the UCSD Pascal User Group, and he's cheerfully coaxed his Linux
> box's disk parameters into reading the 800K 5 1/4 Pinnacle Systems
> disks he had. I hope to decipher the .SVOL "disk volume in a file"
> method they were stored in, and post them to my web page soon.

Sounds great, especially if any of this stuff works on the Terak.

By the way, i've had some minor difficulties reformatting floppys
for use on the Terak. I'll try this new Radio Shack degausser on
them before formatting (formatting being done by cp/m on a cromemco Z2)
and hopefuly that will help. The problem may well be my floppy drives
fault though...

-Lawrence LeMay

>
> He also mentioned he has source code on 8 inch disks from an
> Ohio Scientific, Inc. machine. He thought hed have more trouble
> finding a way to read those because of its scheme of using an
> 6820 parallel port controller and a 6850 serial port controller
> to access floppies. Is that true? Should the normal scheme for
> connecting a Shugart-y drive to an old AT-era WD controller
> work to read these old disks?
>
> - John
>
Received on Fri Oct 29 1999 - 16:56:41 BST