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From: ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: 16B Info/Tips/Resources (semi-long)
Keywords: 16B, Xenix, Tandy
Message-ID: <1990Sep18.025437.18869@csis.dit.csiro.au>
Date: 18 Sep 90 02:54:37 GMT
References: <1990Sep12.073838.8635@coyote.uucp> <154@rwing.UUCP>
Organization: CSIRO Division of Information Technology
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In article <154@rwing.UUCP>:
>I've seen a model 16 (not 16B) equipped with single sided drives but
>I've yet to see a 16B equipped with anything but double sided thinlines.
>I bought a model 16B new in 1985 (what a sucker eh?), it was equipped with
>double sided drives. I've yet to get any software distributed on double
>sided floppies, including 3.02.00 kernal and development system which you
>say you've installed.

Just as a note of interest, I inherited the 3.01 distribution for a 16B
and 2 of the 7 diskettes are DS. However tar couldn't read them
properly.  Eventually I worked out that the files were on one side of
the diskette so I had to use dd to throw out every other group of 16
blocks. Must have been a screwup at the disk duplicator. I wonder how
the original owner managed to install the software.