Re: Apple// CP/M question

[Roy and/or Janet Miller <millers@inetnebr.com>]

Paul Schlyter wrote:

> 2. Even if Apple // disks had been compatible with the rest of the
> world on the sector level, MSDOS still uses a different logical disk
> format than CP/M.

Not necessarily. The Coleco ADAM's version of CP/M 2.2 used exactly the same
format as the first PC/MS-DOS format, 160K, SSDD. In fact, I used to put my
ADAM's CP/M boot disk in my IBM PC and try to boot. It didn't really enter CP/M
of course, but it would "start" to, at least to the extent that I would get a
screen message saying CP/M 2.2, copyright Digital Research etc, and then
garbage, and then the machine would freeze. The fact is that there was no
standard disk format for CP/M on 5.25" disks, or for that matter the occasional
machine that used 3" or 3.5" inch disks.

Roy