System/36 whining and begging...

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Mon Jan 27 00:16:01 2003

On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, Colin Eby wrote:

> working on a list of questions and puzzles to accomplish this goal.The
> first obvious problem is media to hardware integration. If memory serves, I
> read somewhere that IBM used an oddball disk format (Sellam, you might know
> this). 8" Shuggart drives come on the market from time to time but, would
> they, using low level drivers, be able to make a physical block by block
> copy of IBM S/36 disk data? The second problem is hardware to hardware

I wouldn't know this, but certainly Eric Smith does.

Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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