>>>>> "Ruud" == rbaltiss <rbaltiss@worldaccess.nl> writes:
MV> What kind of disks should I use in the 8050? Are normal 5.25" 48
MV> TPI DSDD disks OK? It formatted them OK but I haven't done any real
MV> testing.
Ruud> DS/DD 96 TPI (or 100 TPI). Normal 360 KB diskettes are 48 TPI.
Ruud> Before I got some from Frank I used these but I encounterd
Ruud> problems so you're warned.
Yeah, the 8050 is coughing at my 48 TPI disks now...
MV> Which chip is used for generating the display? 6545? I couldn't
MV> find one on the motherboard, but I didn't look very hard. There was
MV> a hitachi IC called HD46505 -- could this be it?
Ruud> UB13 : 6545
K. Still, any clue what the 46505 does?
MV> There appears to be two casette interfaces -- is this the case?
MV> Hardly useful, is it?
Ruud> As Andre said, one was for the internal drive. Both can be used.
Ruud> The first one has device number one and the second suprise
Ruud> suprise.... two! (I think the one on the side is #1) The last
Ruud> one was discarded when C= decided to add a RS232 interface.
Hmm. I would trade a casette port for a RS232 interface...
Ruud> About books etc. I'll make a list of all books/magasines/etc.
Great,
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