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From: bill@bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: CP/M disk formats (was Re: CPM to DOS exchanger)
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.033944.5255@bilver.uucp>
Date: 6 Jun 91 03:39:44 GMT
References: <1991May22.042049.8842@trl.oz.au> <Z8cR31w164w@ruth.UUCP> <822@spam.ua.oz>
Organization: W. J. Vermillion - Winter Park, FL
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In article <822@spam.ua.oz> dcook@spam.ua.oz (David Cook) writes:
 
>   While on the subject of disk formats, are there any programs
>that will read Microbee 3.5" CP/M disks. As far as I am aware, the
>Microbee (an Australian designed and built CP/M machine, which also
>had some graphics support, until the company went broke :-( )
>is the only CP/M machine that uses 3.5" disks, which hold 390K.

Well I know of at least 1 other CPM machine that used 3.5" disks.

Sony.

We used the Sony CPM machines as a front end for an interactive video disk
system a zillion years ago.

With the 64k RAM, Sony's Basic with Video Disk extensions, we had about 28k
left for a program.

Worked great.  We "knocked their socks off" when we finally got it all
running.


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