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Date   : Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:11:22 +0100
From   : dm.hunt@... (David Hunt)
Subject: Guess the disk set...

> >>    What comes on 7 5.25" floppies with blue labels, and the first 
> >> disk is the only one with an actual title ("utilities")?
> >>
> >> ...
> >>
> >> Disks are double-sided, 80-track, 10x 256 byte sectors per 
> track, FM 
> >> density.
> >>
> >> ...
> >
> > 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 ?
> 
> They won't be M512. That can handle various (DOS and 
> DOS-like) formats, but does not use FM formats at all.
> 
> Items for Z80 copro sounds much more likely.
> 

Doh! Yeah, you're right, I have a similar set of discs attached to the Z80
manual set with an elastic band, at least they're easy to copy, just
FM/DS/80T DFS format with 2x200kB CPMDISC files on them. 

Dave ;)
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