Date   : Wed, 08 Mar 2006 23:05:52 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: PANOS/ACW

Fragula <fragula@...> wrote:
> Hi Dave!
> 
>  > http://www.acornpreservation.org/jules/ReleaseNotice_No10-01_150_jpg.zip
> 
> Thanks, Grabbed 'em. They will be highly handy! The ones I have (not
> scanned as yet) are just the ones for the FORTRAN, LISP and PASCAL
> languages. I'll be looking to get those scanned in the next few months.
> 
> >> When I have time, I'll incorporate them into the main ap.org site
> "properly".
> 
> Very cool btw. Another Acorn site I hand't come across before.
> 
> >> Regarding the system discs, is there any chance you'd be able to dump
> them (as
> >> I only have two of them)?
> 
> The system disks (ANY system disks!) are the ones I don't have, and am
> looking for. I'm more than happy to Omnidisk the 3 language floppies up
> if anyone is interested.
> 
> No guarantee as to the contents, but the packages look near mint, the
> books untouched, so I'm hopefull. My ACW has a borked PANOS install
> (bits missing) so i've not been able to use it for much more than the
> BBC/6502 bits and hard disk.
> 
> >> If you need some pointers towards BBC>PC file transfer software, just
> mail me off-list.
> 
> One day I'm gonna write a book on the subject. ;->
> 
> Over 400, possibly over 500 disk formats, including the whacky GCRNRZ
> (Apple II, CBM PET/64 and - on a good day -Victor/Sirius) over 3", 3.5",
> 5.25"@48(read
> only) and 96tpi 5.25"@100tpi and 8".
 
I can do 3", 3.5", 5.25", SD DFS, DD DFS, ADFS S/M/L/D/E/F, HADFS,
Acorn CPM, Amstrad CPM, AmsDOS, Einstein, Torch CPN, SJ MDFS and a
few others.
 
> 20 odd tape formats based on QIC(02/40/80 and variants).
 
BBC and Spectrum tapes, as well as Spectrum Microdrive.
 
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