Subj : Re: what are you dialing in with?
To   : Zero_Cool
From : Bob Worm
Date : Fri Jun 14 2024 21:53:31

  Re: Re: what are you dialing in with?
  By: Zero_Cool to maple on Thu Jun 13 2024 22:42:31

Hi, ZC.

 > Osborne has single sided drives - only 91k space per diskette.  Serial cable
 > oonly has RX TX and GND wires, 2400 baud.  I restored the machine several
 > years ago.  Found double-sided disk images of single-sided disks online so I
 > had to  open the DS image and save it as a SS image, buy a GoTek floppy
 > drive emulator, make the custom cable and use the emulator as drive A to
 > write the image to an actual diskette in the restored aligned drive B.  What
 > a journey!  Big thanks to everyone who posted guides online for setting up
 > the GoTek emulator. Learning to code TurboPascal 3.0.

I'm sure it tastes all the sweeter for that effort. I really like your style.

To quote the Welsh cult classic TV series Gavin and Stacey - "Odd choice, but it's your choice!" Nobody else is doing BBS on an Acorn but I flipping love mine :)

BobW
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