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Re: Where does the "16 SECTOR" message come from?
Tristan Mumford wrote:
> 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!
>
Sorry about the self reply. I just chucked it in slot7 and booted DOS3.3.
It Displayed "16 SECTOR" then boot into DOS normally. Didn't see that
message. I wonder if it's an easter egg of sorts.
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