Re: About 400k Pascal Disk: help !

[Mike Pfaiffer <mike@digitalcivilization.ca>]

J. Vernet wrote this amazing epistle:

> Hi,
> 
> If you remember, I told here about some crazy Pascal disk that I can't
> read. I have more information about these.
> 
> In fact, they ara *not* 400 k disk, but 360 k disk. The drive we used is
> an OM-D30V, that is the very first 3.5-inch drive, from Sony, according to
> http://www.macgeek.org/museum/sony400kdrive/
> 
> The drive is connected with a Apple IIe thru a very rare EICON Research
> card. A special Pascal Driver (SONY.CODE) let Pascal 1.1 format and use
> the disk (SIDE 0, 720 blocks).
> 
> The problem is that we cannot read anymore these discs -the EICON Card
> seems to be dead-.
> I think that 400 ou 800 k Apple Drive cannot read these 360 k (either on
> an Apple II or an Macintosh).
> 
> If anybody have information -or may be an EICON Card and drive- about how
> reading and writing these disk, thanks in advance !
> 
> 
> J. VERNET

        Just a thought. Maybe someone else can confirm this. Isn't a 360 3.5 
floppy an old low density PC format?

                                Later
                                Mike



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