[Coco] And another question

[Luis Antoniosi (CoCoDemus)]

AFAIK 8" floppies requires 500Kbp/s same as 3 1/2 HD.


On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:19 PM, <RJRTTY at aol.com> wrote:

> In a message dated 5/14/2013 7:53:10 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> billg999 at cs.uofs.edu writes:
>
>
>
> >RM-COBOL.  Ryan-McFarland.  Their compiler ran on most micros  and
> >a number of Minis.  Eventually bought out by Micro-Focus, I  believe.
>
> >Anybody here know what a Terak is?  LSI-11 with  28Kwords of memory
> >and 8" floppy disks.  I once did a project using  RT-11 and COBOL on
> >a Terak with 4 floopies (the norm was one and at most  two.  people
> >marveled at the tower on my desk!!)  Now those  were the fun days.
>
> >>
> >> I've since tried to expunge it  from my memory, but obviously I've been
> >> scarred for life! :(
>
> >That which does not kill us makes  us stronger.
>
>
> I have two 8 inch floppy drives and a supply of 8 inch floppiy disks.
> I am going to play with some day.  I am going to connect them to  an old
> grey coco1 using the oldest disk interface cart witch was modifiable  for
> thier data
> rate.
>        If I found out that you really ancient  fellows were doing something
> unseamly
>  back in the day, I going to report you to the proper authorities and  have
> you
> sent away as a potential public nuisance.
>
> Roy
>
>
>
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