Re: Otrona / Hospital
Courage and good luck ! I wasn't able to answer more fully, nor even now. I just spent a week in the hospital. giant kidney stone and massive infection. First few days were intolerable levels of pain. I am now on 2 weeks of 24/7 IV antibiotic infusions. Bizarre little pump that I carry around, but, at least I'm carrying it around at home, instead of the hospital. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com
Re: Otrona / Hospital
Well, when in doubt, check 22Disk, right? Here are the CP/M formats: BEGIN OTR1 Otrona Attache - DSDD 48 tpi 5.25" DENSITY MFM, LOW CYLINDERS 40 SIDES 2 SECTORS 10,512 SKEW 2 SIDE1 0 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 SIDE2 1 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 ORDER EAGLE BSH 4 BLM 15 EXM 1 DSM 181 DRM 127 AL0 0C0H AL1 0 OFS 3 END BEGIN OTR2 Otrona Attache - DSDD 96 tpi 5.25" DENSITY MFM, LOW CYLINDERS 80 SIDES 2 SECTORS 10,512 SKEW 2 SIDE1 0 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 SIDE2 1 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 ORDER CYLINDERS BSH 4 BLM 15 EXM 0 DSM 386 DRM 127 AL0 0C0H AL1 0 OFS 3 END I have samples on file--and probably the MS-DOS ones somewhere. What's interesting is that the treatment of the second side is different between 48 and 96 tpi versions. The EXM difference is also interesting--could be an error, but I've received no reports on it. --Chuck
Re: Otrona / Hospital
On 11/02/2017 07:37 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: giant kidney stone and massive infection. First few days were intolerable levels of pain. WOW! Sorry to hear about this, and hope the surgery gets the stone out and you recover well and quickly! Jon
Otrona / Hospital
I was not able to get access to any of my notes to more completely answer Eric's question. Short answer: NO. Otrona did not have two different obscure numbers of tracks for their disk sides. On the limited number of Otronas that I encountered. What I encountered was very straight-forward WD-like ordinarty disk formats. IIRC, they were 10 sectors per track, with 512 bytes per sector. There were 40 cylinder and 80 cylinder. There was a CP/M, and an MS-DOS. I don't remember what the distribution of those formats was, although I specifically remember a 96tpi (800k) MS-DOS. Ironically, the first one that I saw was a doctor at a hospital. To flog the point about portability, Otrona did an early ad with a Chaplin imitator trying to carry a card table with a PC on it down steps in front of a building (capitol?) IBM claimed to own Chaplin (and did apparently pay royalties to Chaplin estate), although Chaplin himself was not a big fan of biug corporation. I wasn't able to answer more fully, nor even now. I just spent a week in the hospital. giant kidney stone and massive infection. First few days were intolerable levels of pain. I am now on 2 weeks of 24/7 IV antibiotic infusions. Bizarre little pump that I carry around, but, at least I'm carrying it around at home, instead of the hospital. THEN, in 2 weeks? they will operate to try to remove the stone. They are hoping to do it with trans-urethral laser, with lithotripsy as a fall back. I had not prepared for being in the hospital, so only had a phone (Samsung Galaxy S4), and it wasn't until the third day that I was able to wrangel access to my pants (and pocket contents) I think that I will recover. THANK YOU to the folk who wrote to me with good wishes! -- Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com
