Re: D9060 with OpenCBM (was: Mac Installation with Brew)

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> > Possibly all those tricks nowadays are mostly for curiosity, and even on
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> > IEEE side there are more reliable and cost effective ways if storage
> > capacity is what you are after.
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> So true.  For one, nobody wants a 16MB drive with one directory.  When
> it was new, it was an interesting, if not outrageously priced device.
> The DOS, though, is stale when it comes to not supporting things that
> came later like subdirectories or mounting image files as a
> filesystem.  That vastly helps using megabyte capacities.
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> -ethan
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And a lot of the documentation I have read indicates that these were not
permanent storage, you'd expect to have to reformat each time you used
these as multi disk drive replacements for things like year end accounting
and stuff like that.

Bill


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