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From: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Xerox -> IBM file convers
Message-ID: <25d9d7d8.1e8e@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 14 Feb 90 22:12:40 GMT
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Reply-To: jdudeck@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (John R. Dudeck)
Organization: Cal Poly State University -- San Luis Obispo
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>In a previous article I wrote:
>>There are at least two commercial products that will let you read
>>Xerox and all other CP/M disks on a pc.  One is Uniform-PC, the other
>>is Media Master.  I don't have the coordinates handy for the

>To which Mark Freedman responds:
>   I'm quite certain that the drive controller in the PC won't handle
>single-density formats. It's a hardware limitation designed into the
>board.

Yes, of course that is true.  I exaggerated sligtly.  I figured that
given the distance back in history that it has receded to, it really
doesn't matter that much.  It also won't read the hard-sector formats 
such as Heath and North Star.  Uniform-PC will also read
odd DOS formats such as Rainbow 80T SS and Sharp 3.5" 40T.

While on the subject, Uniform-PC will format DEC RX50 diskettes which
are used on the DEC Micro-PDP11 series.  The PDP's are incapable of
formatting floppies, so if you don't want to pay through the schnozz
you can just buy cheap PC disks and format them on an AT 80T drive
using the Rainbow format.  It works fine.

-- 
John Dudeck                           "You want to read the code closely..." 
jdudeck@Polyslo.CalPoly.Edu             -- C. Staley, in OS course, teaching 
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