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Subject: Re: Request of Floppy Info (FAQ???)
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Date: 5 Apr 91 16:37:00 GMT
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hulaw1.harvard.edu!peregrin@HUSC6.HARVARD.EDU quotes me as saying:
> petersen@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu:
> >
> >
> >     The Rainbow uses a DEC disk called an RX-50K, I think.  The RX-50K is
> > supplied with a strange, low-level format already applied to it.  You can
> > create this format on any HD and most DD disks if you have some of the
> > support programs for CCPM-86.
>
>     CPM? Aaaaaghhhh!  That was before my time . . . What do us DOS users
> do?
>
 
    I dunno.  Punt?  From the drafty attick of my memory come no solutions to
the problem.  I can make any disk into an RX-50K on CCPM and any disk into an
RX-33 on VMS, but I have no idea how to do the low-level formatting necessary
from MS-DOS.  Sadly, I "lost" my technical documentation (on purpose) during
my next-to-last move.  It had a complete description of the RX-50 low-level
format...
 
-Chris
 
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