Altair hard disk system

[Richard A. Cini]

George:

	The emulator presently supports two formats using only an emulated 88-DSK
controller. First is the base Altair disk format with a capacity of about
337k. This format is also used for CP/M 2.2 (although the sector size is
different). The second is a special 1mb "large disk" CP/M format.

	The project screams for a hard drive setup but there were very few at the
time. So, that's why we came up with the 1mb large disk CP/M format.

Rich

-----Original Message-----
From: George Leo Rachor Jr. [mailto:george at rachors.com]
Sent: Friday, October 22, 2004 7:21 PM
To: rcini at optonline.net; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic
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Subject: Re: Altair hard disk system


Rich,  and others..

I have a set of formatted disks from this era for the Altair but no
hardware available.

I saw the Altair emulator project.  I'll someday either need to get real
hardware <grin: not likley> or a way to get my diskettes imaged such that
I can access their contents from the emulator.

What does the emulator currently support in the way of disk images?

George Rachor

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George L. Rachor Jr.		george at rachors.com
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United States of America        Amateur Radio : KD7DCX

On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Richard A. Cini wrote:

> Hello all:
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> 	I found this on eBay today:
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=4193&item=5133018533&
> rd=1
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> 	Does anyone have any information on this? This is the first time
> I've seen this unit. Maybe something to emulate...
>
> 	Thanks.
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> Rich
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> Rich Cini
> Collector of classic computers
> Build Master for the Altair32 Emulation Project
> Web site: http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~rcini/classiccmp/
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