Five and quarter drives

[Scott Stevens]

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 20:55:00 +0000
Gordon JC Pearce <gordon at gjcp.net> wrote:

> Scott Stevens wrote:
> have 40 steps.
> > 
> > This doesn't distinguish between HD and 'Quad Density' drives, but
> > Quad Density (720K 80 track 5-1/4" drives) are rare.  There's one in
> > my Altos 586, tho.
> 
> Oooh, another Altos owner.  Got any install media that will work in an
> 
> Altos 386?  I've got one that I'm keen to do stuff with, but I'm not 
> totally sure I've got a complete OS.  It seems to run some sort of
> SysV Unix.
> 
> Gordon.

Before the holidays I tracked down someone who has the original install
media for the Altos 586.  All that Microsoft Xenix goodness *smirk*.  At
least it's pre-SCO.  I need to follow up on it and try to get the copies
made.  My plan is to ship him a new box 360K diskettes to use as 720K
'quad density' media.

I am not familiar with the Altos 386.  Is it an 8086 machine?  The 586
is a 5-user 8086 machine (five serial ports to attach terminals).