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From: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Why IBM went for the 8088 -- The Untold Story (Seattle Comp.)
Keywords: S100 IEEE-696 SC-DOS Seattle MS-DOS IBM_PC
Message-ID: <774@bilver.UUCP>
Date: 27 May 90 05:29:07 GMT
References: <1WWjqN#0SBCWN5sLFYH9X6tz009zLSK=eric@snark.uu.net> <1990May23.154706.16476@sq.sq.com> <451@isgtec.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@bilver.UUCP (Bill Vermillion)
Organization: W. J. Vermillion, Winter Park, FL
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In article <451@isgtec.UUCP> bmw@isgtec.UUCP (Bruce Walker) writes:
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>Also, to this day, one of the magic cookie disk-type values (0xf8 thru 0xff,
>found in the boot block) means eight-inch floppy -- ever see an 8" floppy on
>any MSDOS machine? The Seattle Computing machine had them!

Yup! I did.  Put a pair of 8" drives on an original PC (the one with the tape
connector) to go along with the 5" drives.  8"s were SO MUCH faster.

About the only controller to do this was from Maynard, who are now into tape
drives as opposed to peripheral boards.   Used Tall Tree's J-format an it
hummed right along.

bill
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