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 ;)