DEC (Minc 11?) RX01 disks and PUTR

From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
Date: Fri Apr 20 21:15:07 2001

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, ajp166 wrote:

> From: Don Maslin <donm_at_cts.com>
> >The DD part sounds rather like what Altos used on their 8" DD disks,
> >and which no PC FDC that I know of can read. I doubt that they did
> >the SD header part though. Have to fire up my Sierra (Altos clone)
> >and see if it can read the RX02 stuff - or at least look at it with DU.
>
>
> I bet the altos can't. The mixed density format is something only DEC
> did.

Agreed, but I might be able to read sector content using DU.

                                                 - don

> Intel also used M2FM (rather than MFM) for double density for the 2xx
> series
> development systems. it was also incompatable with everything and
> used 3000 series bit slice.
>
> Allison
>
>
Received on Fri Apr 20 2001 - 21:15:07 BST