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Is It Time To Stop Using Windows XP?
The Old Delta system
Unable to fine Info on it But the am looking! Here all to days system! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_file_systems "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote in message ... In message , dadiOH writes: MotoFox wrote: Well, you spoke for MotoFox. That's how I have it set up. The power connector on my 5.25 is the regular four-pin Molex plug, like you'd probably find on your hard drive or CD drive, and the data cable is an edge-connector type (look at the row of gold contacts in the upper right-hand corner of the 5.25" disk drive's circuit board shown in this photograph: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Floppy_Disk_Dr ives_8_5_3.jpg/800px-Floppy_Disk_Drives_8_5_3.jpg ). It's IMPOSSIBLE to connect one of those things backwards! I wish they'd used the same interface for 3.5" drives, too...... Thanks to both you and JP for the info. Got a ton of old 5.25 floppies that I can no longer read on my TRS-80s (I think the heads are out of adjustment) and someday I'd like to reclaim what they contain. Ah. There may be more to it than just connecting the drive correctly. MY memory is rather dim, but I _think_ the old trusty (or trashy) 80 was _not_ an "IBM compatible" as they used to be called, and thus may well use a different format (number of sectors per track, or at least directory structure) than/to/from PCs. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf ... "Peter and out." ... "Kevin and out." (Link episode) |
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Is It Time To Stop Using Windows XP?
That, and the recording on the disks might physically be incompatible. Some
diskettes (Apple II and Commodore disks come immediately to my mind, but I think there were probably others) use a modulation system called "group code recording (GCR) whilst PC floppy drives tend to use modified frequency modulation (MFM). I couldn't begin to tell you a thing about their characteristics, all I really *do* know is disks recorded on a GCR-based drive won't work in an MFM-based drive and vice versa. I have never worked with a Trash-80 and don't know what sort of modulation format the disk drives use. (My gut instinct says it's GCR, but it's also been known to be wrong from time to time.) That's one of several reasons why if you put, say, an Apple IIE disk into your PC and try to read it up, the PC will think it blank and tell you to format it. |
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J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , dadiOH writes: MotoFox wrote: Well, you spoke for MotoFox. That's how I have it set up. The power connector on my 5.25 is the regular four-pin Molex plug, like you'd probably find on your hard drive or CD drive, and the data cable is an edge-connector type (look at the row of gold contacts in the upper right-hand corner of the 5.25" disk drive's circuit board shown in this photograph: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Floppy_Disk_Dr ives_8_5_3.jpg/800px-Floppy_Disk_Drives_8_5_3.jpg ). It's IMPOSSIBLE to connect one of those things backwards! I wish they'd used the same interface for 3.5" drives, too...... Thanks to both you and JP for the info. Got a ton of old 5.25 floppies that I can no longer read on my TRS-80s (I think the heads are out of adjustment) and someday I'd like to reclaim what they contain. Ah. There may be more to it than just connecting the drive correctly. MY memory is rather dim, but I _think_ the old trusty (or trashy) 80 was _not_ an "IBM compatible" as they used to be called, and thus may well use a different format (number of sectors per track, or at least directory structure) than/to/from PCs. I am sure they are not IBM compatible as IBM wasn't around then (in the mini computer field). The floppies are RX50, double sided. I have a TRS-80 emlulator, no idea if it can read or not, will find out someday. If not, there are programs that will. http://users.bart.nl/users/pb0aia/vax/rx50.html -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80 About
http://support.radioshack.com/setup.htm The Old OP Sysm. from A to Z http://support.radioshack.com/soft_tandy.htm Drives for Hard Wares like CD, and move! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandy_Corporation About "dadiOH" wrote in message ... J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: In message , dadiOH writes: MotoFox wrote: Well, you spoke for MotoFox. That's how I have it set up. The power connector on my 5.25 is the regular four-pin Molex plug, like you'd probably find on your hard drive or CD drive, and the data cable is an edge-connector type (look at the row of gold contacts in the upper right-hand corner of the 5.25" disk drive's circuit board shown in this photograph: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Floppy_Disk_Dr ives_8_5_3.jpg/800px-Floppy_Disk_Drives_8_5_3.jpg ). It's IMPOSSIBLE to connect one of those things backwards! I wish they'd used the same interface for 3.5" drives, too...... Thanks to both you and JP for the info. Got a ton of old 5.25 floppies that I can no longer read on my TRS-80s (I think the heads are out of adjustment) and someday I'd like to reclaim what they contain. Ah. There may be more to it than just connecting the drive correctly. MY memory is rather dim, but I _think_ the old trusty (or trashy) 80 was _not_ an "IBM compatible" as they used to be called, and thus may well use a different format (number of sectors per track, or at least directory structure) than/to/from PCs. I am sure they are not IBM compatible as IBM wasn't around then (in the mini computer field). The floppies are RX50, double sided. I have a TRS-80 emlulator, no idea if it can read or not, will find out someday. If not, there are programs that will. http://users.bart.nl/users/pb0aia/vax/rx50.html -- dadiOH ____________________________ dadiOH's dandies v3.06... ...a help file of info about MP3s, recording from LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that. Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico |
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Okay, what's with this "MyNews" guy? Is s/he a spambot or something?
*plonk* -- MotoFox Former superstar of the Muzak Forums, 2003-2009 Do not staple, fold, spindle or mutilate; keep away from sources of magnetism. If ingested, do not induce vomiting. |
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Is It Time To Stop Using Windows XP?
Yes, it was.
I guess that's what I get for having been inactive on Usenet for too many years......... -- MotoFox Former superstar of the Muzak Forums, 2003-2009 Do not staple, fold, spindle or mutilate; keep away from sources of magnetism. If ingested, do not induce vomiting. |
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Is that a rhetorical question?
MotoFox wrote: Okay, what's with this "MyNews" guy? Is s/he a spambot or something? *plonk* -- MotoFox Former superstar of the Muzak Forums, 2003-2009 Do not staple, fold, spindle or mutilate; keep away from sources of magnetism. If ingested, do not induce vomiting. |
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MyNews is a New Free/Pay NS I working on like News.aioe.org!
as for the free NG site it be the same as Aioe on how manly post / or how big the Message you send in a 24 hour day As for the pay site it be the same as http://www.easynews.com/partners/?a_...a_bid=414f5171 but working on how much! MotoFox in the Head of your post this is 98Guy why you ask? Coming January 2011 guy? Is s/he a spambot or something? Now do tell! "MotoFox" wrote in message ... Okay, what's with this "MyNews" guy? Is s/he a spambot or something? *plonk* -- MotoFox Former superstar of the Muzak Forums, 2003-2009 Do not staple, fold, spindle or mutilate; keep away from sources of magnetism. If ingested, do not induce vomiting. |
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In message , MotoFox
writes: Okay, what's with this "MyNews" guy? Is s/he a spambot or something? *plonk* I suspect s/he is someone for whom English is far from his/her first language. Not sure what is - the plethora of exclamation marks suggests German, but the strange grammar suggests otherwise. I suppose s/he _could_ be something automated, but if so, it only posting in this newsgroup - and not that much of that - seems very restrained. -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy. -Max Weinreich, linguist and author (1894-1969) |
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