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Re: Where does the "16 SECTOR" message come from?

sicklittlemonkey wrote:

> On Feb 21, 1:59 pm, "William Garber" <willy4...@garberstreet.com>
> wrote:
>> Looks like 'Rom2.txt' is pretty close to the 16 SECTOR
>> ROM on the Apple 5.25" disk drive controller.
> 
> Yeah, and the answer to Tristan's original query is rom1, where it
> also has code to print the text strings:
> 
> AUTO BOOT VER1.1
> BY H.SETA JJ1KMA
> PRODUCE 1983 JAN BY ORIENT
> 
> Does it usually print those, Tristan?
> Looks like this puppy is Japanese.

Hmm... I've never seen that. I'll boot a disk off it tonight to see what
happens. After all it only has an enforced write protect. The rest still
works perfectly.

I didn't see any text. khexedit has a few limitations. What do you use to
look at binaries? I think I need to reinstall a nice console one.

Hopefully the ROM dumps will provide a little fun for some. If people want
to know how it works desperately enough maybe I could do a reverse-engineer
schematic.

By the way. The tape drives I thought I could use with the adaptor, I can't.
As near as I can tell they are an implementation of SCSI 1. Even more fun!

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