[Simh] 8" Floppy disk image getting HALT error
Anders Magnusson
ragge at ludd.ltu.se
Tue Jul 11 17:50:07 EDT 2017
Den 2017-07-11 kl. 14:29, skrev Johnny Billquist:
>
> To sum things up. You can probably ignore all the questions about if
> this really is some DEC floppy, what kind of format it has, and so on.
> If kryoflux managed to extract data that looks valid with RX02
> parameter settings, then I'd say we can be sure it is an RX02 disk.
> And this format was unique to DEC, so it can't be anything else.
>
Nitpicking: Sintran had the same format (F-F 12 IIRC) so DEC floppies
could be used by Sintran and vice versa.
The RX02 floppies were pre-formatted by DEC and were quite expensive,
but any floppy could be formatted using Sintran and then used on a VAX
for example :-)
-- R
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