On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 Innfogra_at_aol.com wrote:
> > DSDD, they are *not* GCR drives?
> I don't think they are GCR but someone more knowledgeable than I will have to
> answer that. My understanding is that they are the same as a 360 drive with a
> head that is half the width so they can deal with 80 tracks instead of 40.
Correct
> > What other machines might carry these drives, can I
> > hook one up to a standard PC controller in a box
> > running DOS, and then duplicate the disks?
> The answer to this is yes. For many years I kept an IBM PC (8088) clone with
> DSDD, DSQD drives and my EPROM programmer. IIRC I used the 3 1/2 inch 720K
> disk driver for the DSQD and it worked for my purposes of making disks for
> various systems. I used Media Master (sorry Fred) and PCDOS 3.3.
No offense taken; Mark is a good guy, and it was a good product.
MOST of the folk in that particular software specialty treated each other
as "COLLEAGUES", rather than as "COMPETITORS". (Like Dentists)
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Received on Sun Mar 17 2002 - 13:37:22 GMT