Five and quarter drives

From: Scott Stevens <chenmel_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Sat Feb 12 15:10:25 2005

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:55:00 +0000
Gordon JC Pearce <gordon_at_gjcp.net> wrote:

> Scott Stevens wrote:
> have 40 steps.
> >
> > This doesn't distinguish between HD and 'Quad Density' drives, but
> > Quad Density (720K 80 track 5-1/4" drives) are rare. There's one in
> > my Altos 586, tho.
>
> Oooh, another Altos owner. Got any install media that will work in an
>
> Altos 386? I've got one that I'm keen to do stuff with, but I'm not
> totally sure I've got a complete OS. It seems to run some sort of
> SysV Unix.
>
> Gordon.

Before the holidays I tracked down someone who has the original install
media for the Altos 586. All that Microsoft Xenix goodness *smirk*. At
least it's pre-SCO. I need to follow up on it and try to get the copies
made. My plan is to ship him a new box 360K diskettes to use as 720K
'quad density' media.

I am not familiar with the Altos 386. Is it an 8086 machine? The 586
is a 5-user 8086 machine (five serial ports to attach terminals).
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