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From: jec@nesac2.att.com (John Carter ATLN SADM)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Conversion CP/M --> MS-DOS (Big trouble!)
Summary: Tandy 3000 is NOT CP/M
Message-ID: <95@nesac2.att.com>
Date: 2 Nov 89 03:44:29 GMT
References: <1685.253ee834@esat.kuleuven.ac.be> <11957@fluke.COM>
Organization: A.T.&T. Lisle, Ill.
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In article <1685.253ee834@esat.kuleuven.ac.be> lily@esat.kuleuven.ac.be writes:
>I've got a problem with CP/M diskettes. Somebody gave me a set of CP/M
>diskettes (presumably from a Tandy 3000 or so), and asked me to try to
  ----------------------------^^^^^^^^^^
  This is an AT class MSDOS machine, not a CP/M machine.  It uses 1.2 meg
  high density floppies.  If it's a ** Tandy 2000 **, it's an 80186 MSDOS
  machine that uses 720K (96 tpi) 5.25" floppies.  You can read these
  disks on a 1.2meg drive.  I bought the Microsoft Pascal compiler for
  the Tandy 2000 for $10 (registration card still in the box) because the
  2000 is an orphan and not compatible with 'real' MSDOS machines.  I read
  the disks on the AT at work and copied them to 360K floppies.  Works great.
  I read this twice before thinking of the 2000 and its 720K disks, and I've
  been there before :-(.  Wonder how many other people don't remember that
  Tandy and CP/M don't mix - Pickles and Trout or Montezuma were the sources
  for CP/M on the Model 1, 2, 3, and 4, not Radio Shack.
>copy the text files that are on them to a MS-DOS diskette. I know of a
>program called UNIFORM to temporarily change the drive parameters but
>the real trouble is that the CP/M floppy's have 96 tracks.
  -----------------------------------------------^^^^^^^^^

If the original poster will contact me, I'll try to help him.
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