8-inch disk drives

From: Fritz Chwolka <fritz_aus_dem_hause_chwolka_at_t-online.de>
Date: Sat Jul 26 19:26:25 2003

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:15:17 -0700 (PDT), Fred Cisin wrote:

>> > The MicrosSolutions Floppy controller (Compaticard) IS an 8bit ISA PC 1.2M
>> > controller.
>> > THE ONLY difference is SOFTWARE!
>> > It ALSO will "only recognize 512 byte sectors and
>> > only DOS file systems".
>
>The MicroSolutions floppy controller (Compaticard) is a very nice one, but
>it won't help with Minc any more than a generic controller.

That's right and therefore I have some questions.

I took a look onto a MINC on a german webside and see that the minc is
an interesting part.

1. Dos the minc us rt-11 as his os?

2. How is the data orgnized on the disk ?

3. Is the MINC disk readable onto another dec pdp-11 or similiar ? If
yes isn't it better to try this first?

Greetings from
Fritz Chwolka

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Received on Sat Jul 26 2003 - 19:26:25 BST