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From: ciaraldi@rochester.ARPA
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Subject: Need Format info on Televideo 803
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Date: Wed, 18-Jun-86 22:39:54 EDT
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From: Mike Ciaraldi  <ciaraldi>

I have some files I want to send to someone who has
a Televideo 803 CP/M machine
(no longer made, I believe).
It has 5-inch double sided floppies, and I want to
make floppies he can read.

Does anyone know what the format of the 803 floppies is?
Can an 803 read floppies from some other machine ?
  (e.g. Osborne, Xerox 820, etc.)?

I got a disk from this fellow, and looked at it with
Ultra-Utilities on the IBM PC, and it said that
it had 18 sectors of 256 bytes each.  But, sector 1 was
missing on each track!

I tried Media Master on the PC, a program that lets you
read, write, and format disks from over a hundred different
machines.  The only Televideo it lists is for Turbodos,
not CP/M.   It can't read the disk this guy sent, and the
one it formats for Televideo has 5 sectors of 1024 bytes each.

so, what I am looking for is:
Info on the Televideo format.
Info on a program that might be able to produce a TV compatible disk.
Info on other machines TV can read.
or, someone with a Televideo that might let me modem to him.

Thanks,

Mike Ciaraldi
seismo!rochester!ciaraldi