USUS library (Ohio Scientific)

From: George Rachor <george_at_racsys.rt.rain.com>
Date: Fri Oct 29 17:06:34 1999

Sounds like a good use for an old 8 inch OSI C8P-DF if one still exists!



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George L. Rachor Jr. george_at_racsys.rt.rain.com
Beaverton, Oregon http://racsys.rt.rain.com
United States of America Amateur Radio : KD7DCX

On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, John Foust wrote:

>
> 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 - 17:06:34 BST

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