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Re: cats microsoft softcard (questions in general)
- Subject: Re: cats microsoft softcard (questions in general)
- From: hochstrasse@ubaclu.unibas.ch (Urs Hochstrasser)
- Date: 1997/01/12
- Distribution: world
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Uni Basel
- References: <5ahj6c$f6l@news.cco.net> <5ahtfa$1fda$1@news.gate.net> <5b16mp$k3r@balsam.unca.edu>
In article <5b16mp$k3r@balsam.unca.edu>, RKFAIRCLOTH@unca.edu (Rhonda K.
Faircloth) wrote:
> I have vague, fuzzy memories of CPM cards for the Apple ][. Aren't the CPM
> disks in a 16 sector format (as opposed to dedicated CPM machine's disks) ?
The physical format of CP/M disk was not standardized at all. 8" and
5.25", all sorts of sector formats, you name it.
To run CP/M on a Softcard you need an Apple II 5.25" drive and a CP/M
System Disk in Apple physical format (i.e. 16 sectors, GCR encoding, etc).
Cheers
--Urs
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