Help needed with reading Altos 3068 disks

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Tue Oct 8 22:54:01 2002

On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Will Jennings wrote:
> Disk format parameters even? Don't know, have no manuals.. my dad bought the
> machine for me at an auction for a whole 5 bucks... It was marked as a "UPS"
> heh. Oh it appears to use a modified VME bus possibly.. not sure..

Yep. I got a disk sent to me once to analyze that was labeled as coming
from a "UPS". Gee! maybe it was from YOUR machine! :-)


> The FDD itself is a Panasonic JU-475-2,

That is without question a 1.2M drive. Although it is possible to use it
as a 720K, we can probably assume "high density".

Any details on the operating system?

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Fred Cisin                      cisin_at_xenosoft.com
XenoSoft                        http://www.xenosoft.com
Received on Tue Oct 08 2002 - 22:54:01 BST

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