cp/m favorite?

From: Fred Cisin <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
Date: Fri Oct 25 21:40:00 2002

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Tony Duell wrote:
> > There are certainly some really bizarre ones. The Victor 9000 (aka
> > Sirius) is MUCH weirder than the Rainbow.
> The Sirius is just plain weird in just about every respect, not just the
> disk cotnroller. :-)

But even it isn't the weirdest machine. The Lisa's floppy drive was
weirder than the Victor 9000's.

> > But the Rainbow MS-DOS format is truly unique. It is the only one that
> > I've seen that doesn't have the DIRectory on track 0.
> Now that I didn't know. Where did they put it? In the middle, on track 39
> or 40?

No, just a track or so in from the edge. IIRC, track 1 instead of track
0. I guess that that was to put it in the same place as their CP/M
DIRectory. There is a field (don't remember which) in the MS-DOS "BIOS
Parameter Block" for "hidden" or "reserved" extra sectors.
Received on Fri Oct 25 2002 - 21:40:00 BST