binder@fizbin.DEC.COM ("When you do something well, repeat it often.") (01/08/87)
David Whitney has pointed out an egregious error in my recent discussion of
Apple and IBM hardware, specifically in re: the self-synchronizing preamble
pattern used by the Apple. The 10-bit self-sync bytes aren't ten ONEs, but
rather eight ONEs and two ZEROes. My apologies for any confusion I may have
caused - it's been a *long* time since I looked at the Apple stuff, and I
dashed off that posting here at work without either my Apple documentation or
my brain available.
Cheers,
Dick Binder (The Stainless Steel Rat)
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ARPA: binder%asd.DEC@decwrl.ARPADICKSON@HARTFORD.BITNET.UUCP (06/27/87)
I had a little editing problem with my previous message. My question is: ANY desktop bus key board will work with the GS, right? And the first line of my upgrade section is something like "Unless I'm missing something serious, a child could perform the upgrade operation." Perhaps with this letter, you'll be able to comprehend the other one. Thanks, Bill.
PGOETZ@LOYVAX.BITNET (04/20/88)
In my post on the Elk Cloner, I said you can innoculate a disk against the Cloner V2.0 by "changing T$11 S0 B7 to 2." This would be a BAD THING to do! Changing byte $B7 would change the Track/Sector list. Actually, since $B7 = 3 (mod 4) it won't have any effect, since only every 2nd pair of bytes are used in the VTOC. What I meant to say was, change T$11 S0 B$7 [byte 7] to 2.
craparotta@liovax.DEC.COM (Physical T5--Virtual T7) (05/26/89)
Except for the some obvious typos.. I would like to also point out that ALL of the Shareware authors that I have come in contact with *DO* SUPPORT their respective products with excellence!! Don Elton,Glen Bredon and Jason Harper comes to mind. Joe
sschneider@pro-exchange.cts.com (The RainForest BBS) (03/05/90)
In a previous message I wrote "mystic" instead of "mystique" as being what Apple had lost.... hmmmm; on second thought..... could go either way, ehh? Steve +===========================================================================+ | UUCP: crash!pro-exchange!sschneider COMPU$ERVE : 75166,2544 | | ARPA: crash!pro-exchange!sschneider@nosc.mil GENIE : sschneider | | INET: sschneider@pro-exchange.cts.com APLINK.PE : <shrug> | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The RainForest @ 305-434-4927 / PO Box 841422, Pembroke Pines, Fl, 33084 | +===========================================================================+