farris@marlin.NOSC.MIL (Russell H. Farris) (11/08/90)
Does anyone know of a CPM program that will permit my Otrona
Attache to read and/or write MSDOS diskettes? Was a version of
Uniform ever produced for the Otrona?
Can the Otrona be modified to use an 80-track floppy drive?
Where can I buy the ever-failing 5027 CRT controllers?
Is it feasible to add ram for a ram drive?
Thanks,
Russ Farris (farris@marlin.nosc.mil) (619) 553-4129
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Njal's Sagawilker@descartes.math.purdue.edu (Clarence Wilkerson) (11/08/90)
Somewhere in my archives, I have a Turbo Pascal rewrite of a program to read MSDOS diskettes on a CP/M system that has a bios that will recognize the physical format used ( 512 byte sectors, etc). I believe I posted it once to the CP/M section of GENIE . Clarence Wilkerson wilker@math.purdue.edu
donm@pnet07.cts.com (Don Maslin) (11/09/90)
farris@marlin.NOSC.MIL (Russell H. Farris) writes: >Does anyone know of a CPM program that will permit my Otrona >Attache to read and/or write MSDOS diskettes? Was a version of >Uniform ever produced for the Otrona? No, UniForm was never produced for the Attache'; however, Mycroft Labs, Inc. P.O. Box 4106, Tallahassee FL 32315, (904) 385-1141, produced a program called COMPAT which performed the same functions. As I recall, it only supported the 8 sector DOS disks, but a call to Mycroft should tell you whether that is true and if it is still available. > >Can the Otrona be modified to use an 80-track floppy drive? Yes, some of them were built that way; in fact, the BIOS source listing referred to it also. > >Where can I buy the ever-failing 5027 CRT controllers? I bought one from JDR in San Jose. > >Is it feasible to add ram for a ram drive? Probably, but I can't help you on that one. > >Thanks, > Keeper of the CP/M System Disk | UUCP: {nosc ucsd crash ncr-sd}!pnet07!donm Archives for the Dino(saur)SIG | ARPA: simasd!pnet07!donm@nosc.mil - San Diego Computer Society - | INET: donm@pnet07.cts.com
shad04@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Fandrich) (11/09/90)
In article <1654@marlin.NOSC.MIL> farris@marlin.NOSC.MIL (Russell H. Farris) writes: >Does anyone know of a CPM program that will permit my Otrona >Attache to read and/or write MSDOS diskettes? Was a version of >Uniform ever produced for the Otrona? There's a program called READ-PC.PAS, written in Turbo Pascal, at SIMTEL-20 in the directory PD2:<CPM.DSKUTL>READ-PC.LBR. It was originally written for the H-89 but it uses standard BIOS calls so it won't take much to get it going on any system that uses IBM-style MFM floppies. I've made a few changes to the version at SIMTEL-20 to make it a little more portable and to fix a few bugs. The source will be available for anonymous ftp at ccu.umanitoba.ca as file pub/cpm/read-pc.pas for the next couple of weeks. >>> Dan -- Internet: shad04@ccu.umanitoba.ca CI$: 72365,306 FidoNet: 1:153/511.1