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>Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 10:19:02 -0800 (PST)
>From: Marty DeWindt <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Sony LLC Contact
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum    <[log in to unmask]>
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These guys are very helpful and can answer questions
on the Sony "antique" systems:

248-585-2300 and ask for Art.

Marty




--- LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> --- Forwarded Message from Bill Hogue
> <[log in to unmask]> ---
> 
> >Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 21:57:53 -0800 (PST)
> >From: Bill Hogue <[log in to unmask]>
> >Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: #7383.4 Sony LLC-5010 boot disk
> >To: Language Learning and Technology International
> Information Forum    <[log in to unmask]>
> 
> ------------------
> Marty wrote:
> 
> "That is a CPM 3.5" disk I believe."
> 
> Maybe, but I have a Sony ER-1000 analyzer from 1991
> that uses "MSX-DOS
> 1.03" from Microsoft. 
> 
> This analyzer uses double density (DD) disks (720
> kb), not high density
> (HD) (1.44 mb) ones.
> 
> If the LLC-5510 will write anything (configuration
> info, for example)
> to the disk, and if the drive is a DD not HD one,
> then it will be
> important to use only a DD disk. 
> 
> The reason is that even if you format a HD disk to
> 720 kb, the
> formatting system will write at the higher HD
> current and the resulting
> disk will be difficult for the target system to
> change with its lower
> current DD-type drive.
> 
> If you use a real DD disk, the formatting system
> will dectect this fact
> (the HD disk case has an extra hole) and  it will
> use the proper
> current.
> 
> 
> If the LLC-5510 disk really is a CP-M disk, there
> are utilities
> available that will let you use the CP-M format on a
> DOS system.
> "22DISK" comes to mind. There were some CP-M systems
> that used FDDs
> that are not compatible with today's FDDs. I think
> Sony never used
> them, though.
> 
> I have not thought about this for a long time. 
> 
> Bill Hogue
> 
> >Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 18:39:36 -0600
> >To: Language Learning and Technology International
> Information =
> Forum               <[log in to unmask]>
> >From: Marty DeWindt <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: Re: #7383.1 Sony LLC-5010 boot disk
> >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>
> 
> ------------------
> Yep, and a spare, I think. That is a CPM 3.5" disk I
> believe. Email =
> above=20
> and phone below - let me know next step.
> 
> Marty
> 
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