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From: jons@islenet.UUCP (Jonathan Spangler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Sperry(?) DOS Problems
Message-ID: <3418@islenet.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 12-Aug-87 19:26:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: islenet.3418
Posted: Wed Aug 12 19:26:30 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Aug-87 11:49:46 EDT
References: <116@dalcsug.UUCP> <12055@clyde.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: jons@islenet.UUCP (Jonathan Spangler)
Organization: Islenet Inc.,  Honolulu
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Keywords: Sperry,MS-DOS

In article <12055@clyde.ATT.COM> feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke) writes:
>In article <116@dalcsug.UUCP>, dalegass@dalcsug.UUCP (Dale Gass) writes:
>> sperry DOS with MS-DOS.
>> 
>> I'm interested in finding out just what differences Sperry made in their version
>I am replying on the network in hopes of eliciting information from others, but
>will email to you directly with further questions and information more detailed.
>First of all, the Sperry HT (I believe also known as model 100) is identical to the Leading Edge Model M (both made by Mitsubishi).  The current L.E. PC is the Model D made in Korea and is not the same at all.  
>
>I welcome any other inputs from people on the net who may have found
>a solution to the excruciatingly slow floppy disk read problem.
>
>Forrest Gehrke


This doesn't surprize me on the Sperry HT & LE Model M problem. Try this: take
IBM PC-DOS 3.2 in one computer, and put in an LE MS-DOS 2.11 
 
It will NOT read the directory correctly! Bunch of friendly garbage on the
screen. 

Moral of the story: Keep native DOS's with native machines. The way we got
around the problem was to format a blank PC-DOS 3.2 under 3.2 and then
copy the files on the LE to the newly formatted disk. What a pisser, though!
 
Thankful for my Clone...

Aloha,
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Jonathan Spangler
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