Date   : Tue, 20 Jun 2006 01:04:30 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: PEDL Z80 Board

>Message-ID: <7.0.1.0.2.20060617183228.03916d60@...>
 
Joel Rowbottom <joel@...> wrote:
> mammoth photo session anyway, a lot of stuff I acquired this week
> came from a guy who was on Watford Electronics' beta team, so ended
 
Chris? Steve? Carl? Mike?
 
> up getting pre-release stuff. There's some mad stuff there, sadly
 
Grrr. I never got to do any "real" stuff when I was at Watford.
The job that I applied for was marketed as techy, hardware &
software creation and stuff. The job I ended up with was telephone
monkey.
 
> There will probably be disks with stuff on but the owner had an Acorn
> Z80 copro too and the floppies are simply marked "Z80", so it'll be
> "interesting" finding out what's what.
 
Acorn Z80 disks are effectively DFS disks with a large image file
on them. It's likely that any other Z80 disks will also be 10*256
FM, at least on track zero where the DFS catalogue is. Challenger
produced a CPM BDOS that used 16*256 MFM from track 1 onwards.
 
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