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This month, there is a follow-up to last month's query by Dominik Behr about the Timex FDD3.
"I just got through reading Emulate issue 4 on-line and wanted to give a reply to one of the letters in the Technical Forum concerning the Timex FDD3 disk system. I'm no expert on the system, but I just wanted to answer in case no-one else did. (I can't believe that would happen!)" [It did - TEd]
"There is some info on the disk system at this site. It is a collection of some e-mails talking about (mostly) how to transfer files from the Timex disk system to a PC. The author used 22DISK to read the Timex disks on a PC and includes the setup configuration to read TOS disks. Mr Behr could try to contact the author (Wojtek) using the e-mail address in the file and ask him for a copy of TOS on disk. He should also be able to suggest a way of using 22DISK to copy TOS back onto a Timex disk."
"I also just came across an ad for CP/M 2.2 for the FDD3000 system (the one with the 64K bank built in) with Timex's original CP/M manual and Digital Research's official CP/M manual. This one's a rare bird as it was only released in Portugal after Timex Corp. folded. I don't know how widespread CP/M usage was on the Timex computers in Portugal."
Tech Ed's reply:
Thanks! Not only have I now found out about the Portuguese Timex computers, we also appear to have an answer to last month's query.
As for CP/M, my experience of this operating system has been gained on the Research Machines LINK 480Z and Amstrad CPC and PCW series. I know it could also be used on the Spectrum +3, but not on most versions of the Spectrum due to the memory layout. It would be interesting to know more about CP/M on the Timex.
Although nobody has sent me a message about this query, a friend, who occasionally reads this magazine, has asked for an explanation of "hand-blocking", a method sometimes used to transfer old games to different media.
Basically, it works like this:
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