Making Osborne 1 boot disks

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Wed Sep 29 17:49:21 1999

> The biggest trouble with making SSSD on a PC is that
> you should use a SD drive. If you have a DD drive, the
> track width is smaller ( assuming that we are talking
> about 5-1/4 inch drives). In an emergency, one can place

No, SD and DD 40-track drives use the same track width.
It's only 80-track drives (which category includes but
is not limited to HD drives such as the IBM 1.2M format)
that use narrower heads.
Received on Wed Sep 29 1999 - 17:49:21 BST