Date   : Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:24:33 +0100
From   : dm.hunt@... (David Hunt)
Subject: Guess the disk set...

> I'm busily archiving Acorn floppies at the moment... 60 down 
> and about 500 to go :(
> 
> Anyway, question:
> 
>    What comes on 7 5.25" floppies with blue labels, and the 
> first disk is the only one with an actual title ("utilities")?
> 
> There are various copyrights on the labels: Acorn, Digital 
> Research, Compact Software, Chang Labs, Microfocus.
> 
> Disks are double-sided, 80-track, 10x 256 byte sectors per 
> track, FM density.
> 
> I'm curious, and not near a system that's set up to poke at 
> the actual disk contents or bring up a directory listing. I 
> don't think the 6502 copro software was on that many disks, 
> and all the Panos sets I've seen have "proper" labels which 
> say what's on each disk. Z80 copro, maybe? (I didn't think 
> the latter was quite so many disks either, though).
> 
> Guesses on a postcard, please. Or alternatively, in an email...
> 
> J.
> 
> 

An interesting haul, Cheng Labs wrote a type of M.Y.O.B. app. For managing
accounts in the mid 80's, so I'd guess we're past the Z80 era and into the
80x86 era - perhaps they're for the Master 512 or 80286 ABC ?

Dave ;)