Re: About 400k Pascal Disk: help !

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
20030404154356.28474.00000532@mb-fv.aol.com">news:20030404154356.28474.00000532@mb-fv.aol.com...
> This is a single-sided 3.5" format.
>
> The question is whether it is MFM or GCR, but the custom controller
> argues strongly for MFM.  So there is a very good chance that it can
> be read on a PC that can read DD 3.5" disks, by simply reading the
> blocks that are on only one side.
>
> The Pascal file system is, of course, another issue, which others
> have solutions for.

If I recall, HP had it's own system of CP/M in the beginning, but
I can't be quoted having never used them. Shop folk were not
permitted to operate the inspection room computers, and there
were none elsewhere except the office, but I do recall seeing
those disks in the inspection room next to the machine's console.
As a matter of fact, that was the very machine they used.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprises
http://garberstreet.netfirms.com



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