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From: blh@PacBell.COM (Brian Holliday)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re:  Kaypro disk with unix dd command
Message-ID: <8257@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Date: 6 Nov 90 15:43:31 GMT
References: <9010261511.AA21388@icf.llnl.gov.llnl.gov> <1990Oct27.203647.25518@ecn.purdue.edu> <1990Nov6.001641.20927@tc.fluke.COM>
Reply-To: blh@PacBell.COM (Brian Holliday)
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In article <1990Nov6.001641.20927@tc.fluke.COM> alz@tc.fluke.COM (Al Weiss) writes:
>>The only Kaypros that used single-density system tracks were the original
>>Kaycomp II's -- they had single-density drives.  
>
>As a Kaycomp owner, I disagree.  Single sided, double density on the
>original Kaycomp/Kaypro II's.  But at least one of the Osbornes had
>single sided, single density on the whole floppy.

Non-Linear Systems demonstrated the Kaycomp II at a computer faire in San
Francisco in 1981.  It had single-sided single-density floppies -- for about
90K of data.  This was similar to the Osborne.  But when the computer started
to be sold a few months later, the computer box had a different look, and the
floppies were single-sided double-density -- for about 180K of data.

Brian Holliday (...!pacbell!pbhyf!blh)