> OK ... Here is a real long shot ... I expect that I will be jumped > all over (But what the heck - live dangerously) as to why this is not > possible ... How about picking up an old Radio Shack TRS-80 on E-bay to > do the copying (TRS-80 used 8-inch drives). > . > The only reason I mention this is because many decades ago there was > an 'urban legend' that someone had, in fact, taken an IPL floppy drive > and put it into a TRS-80 and modified the microcode and managed to > cause havoc for the IBM CE's.
23FDs are a wildly different format from just about any other 8 inch floppy format. A TRS-80 drive would not be able to handle it. For example, they top out at a whopping 79K. -- Will ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
