Re: YA Request for Identification/Assistance

[news002@macgeek.org (Bryan Villados)]

Wayne,

Would it be possible to scan the different 13/16 sector controllers?
I'd like to see them because I've never seen one before.

Speaking of which... I used to run a DOS 3.3 tool called DOS 3+2,
which allows you to switch between 13 and 16-sector modes. I keyed
this tool in with Big Mac Assembler back in 1983, and the source is
available in Nibble Magazine 1982 (I forgot the issue/month, but 1982
should be correct). You run the tool, and it embeds itself into DOS
3.3, and even changes a byte at $AC01 (the original Castle Wolfenstein
disk did the same thing). You then initialize a disk with the DOS 3+2,
and it become a DOS 3+2 boot disk.

--- Bryan

Wayne Stewart <waynes@telus.spamless.net> wrote in message news:<3E07B9E4.2070700@telus.spamless.net>...
> Mike Guidero wrote:
> > This sounds a lot like a card my uncle used to have in his II plus.  If it's 
> > the same, then it boots both 13- and 16-sector disks, without having to 
> > flip a switch or change proms.
> > 
> > That's as much as I can tell you.
> > 
> > Mike
> 
> I have a few of the 13/16 sector controllers. Each has a different name 
> silkscreened on it but are otherwise identical. If it's the same card 
> then not counting the EPROM it should have 10 chips. The ones I have 
> were made in 82 or 83.
> 
> Wayne