Date : Tue, 06 Nov 1990 15:43:31 GMT
From : pacbell.com!pacbell!pbhyf!blh@ucsd.edu (Brian Holliday)
Subject: Kaypro disk with unix dd command
In article <1990Nov6.001641.20927@tc.fluke.COM> alz@tc.fluke.COM (Al Weiss)
writes:
>>The only Kaypros that used single-density system tracks were the original
>>Kaycomp II's -- they had single-density drives.
>
>As a Kaycomp owner, I disagree. Single sided, double density on the
>original Kaycomp/Kaypro II's. But at least one of the Osbornes had
>single sided, single density on the whole floppy.
Non-Linear Systems demonstrated the Kaycomp II at a computer faire in San
Francisco in 1981. It had single-sided single-density floppies -- for about
90K of data. This was similar to the Osborne. But when the computer started
to be sold a few months later, the computer box had a different look, and the
floppies were single-sided double-density -- for about 180K of data.
Brian Holliday (...!pacbell!pbhyf!blh)