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Article #2418Re: Re: C-128 CP/M MFM diskette formats supported
From: Dave Haynie
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1986 17:58
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 1986 17:58
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> In article <250@rutgers.RUTGERS.EDU>, daemon@rutgers.UUCP writes:
>> two additional diskette formats that the BIOS is keyed up to recognize: SLICER
>> and EPSON EURO. Anybody ever heard of one of these systems?
>>
> The Slicer, as far as I know, was a 8/16 bit micro that ran both CP/M
> and MS-DOS. Nobody I've talked to has actually seen one, though, which
> makes me wonder why they bothered to put it in the BIOS at all... perhaps
> someone at Commodore had a Slicer disk laying around?
Greg Berlin, hardware designer of the 1571, used to have a Slicer around. Its
a single board computer, which has the 8/16 bit 80186 chip on it. It was
originally set up to run with CPM-86, I believe, but later they came out
with MS-DOS ROMs. Anyway, that's probably where the Slicer format came
from; strange, I'd never heard of that being built in before.
>> Frank Prindle
>
> Rob Tillotson ...ihnp4!killer!sentinel
> {anybigsite}!pur-ee!sentinel
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