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Article #43671Re: *** WANTED! Copyprogram Apricot F1 <
From: Leila Burrell-Davis
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 1990 13:56
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 1990 13:56
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cth_co@tekno.chalmers.se (CHRISTER OLSSON) writes: > I need a copyprogram for copying files from PC to Apricot F1 3.5" 720K-disks. > > Apricot F1 is a MSDOS-based computer but uses a different filesystem so > copying with normal dos-copy isn't possible. We have some rather elderly Apricot PC/xi machines which run MS-DOS 2.11 and format their 720K disks in a non PC-compatible form. However, since we upgraded the RAM BIOS to Release 3.1 (from 2.7 I think), we have been able to read and write 720K disks formatted on a PC clone without difficulty. I think the F1 series are pretty much like the PC/xi in their dissimilarity from PC clones, so it might be worth trying to get a more recent system disk. You could try writing to Apricot, which is a UK company based in Birmingham. (The version of the RAM BIOS you have should be shown on screen as the machine boots.) -- Leila Burrell-Davis, Computing Service, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Tel: +44 273 678390 Fax: +44 273 678335 JANET: leilabd@uk.ac.sussex.syma INTERNET: leilabd%syma.sussex.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk BITNET: leilabd@syma.sussex.ac.uk UUCP: leilabd@syma.uucp
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!strath-cs!cs.glasgow.ac.uk!icdoc!syma!leilabd From: leilabd@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Leila Burrell-Davis) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: *** WANTED! Copyprogram Apricot F1 < Message-ID: <2324@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Date: 7 Mar 90 13:56:20 GMT References: <8162@tekno.chalmers.se> Organization: Computing Service, University of Sussex, UK Lines: 22