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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.COM (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: net.micro.cbm
Subject: Re: Re: C-128 CP/M MFM diskette formats supported
Message-ID: <955@cbmvax.cbmvax.commodore.COM>
Date: Mon, 3-Nov-86 12:58:52 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.955
Posted: Mon Nov  3 12:58:52 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Nov-86 08:22:28 EST
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> 
> In article <250@rutgers.RUTGERS.EDU>, daemon@rutgers.UUCP writes:
>> two additional diskette formats that the BIOS is keyed up to recognize: SLICER
>> and EPSON EURO.  Anybody ever heard of one of these systems?
>> 
>     The Slicer, as far as I know, was a 8/16 bit micro that ran both CP/M
> and MS-DOS.  Nobody I've talked to has actually seen one, though, which
> makes me wonder why they bothered to put it in the BIOS at all... perhaps
> someone at Commodore had a Slicer disk laying around?

Greg Berlin, hardware designer of the 1571, used to have a Slicer around.  Its
a single board computer, which has the 8/16 bit 80186 chip on it.  It was
originally set up to run with CPM-86, I believe, but later they came out
with MS-DOS ROMs.  Anyway, that's probably where the Slicer format came 
from; strange, I'd never heard of that being built in before.

>> Frank Prindle
> 
> Rob Tillotson			...ihnp4!killer!sentinel
> 				{anybigsite}!pur-ee!sentinel

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