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to: MIKE ROSS
from: JEAN PARROT
date: 2003-01-04 10:02:00
subject: ll format ?

Good morning, Mike.

 MR> All, hdc's in the early days MFM, RLL, ESDI (esdi is really rll) had
 MR> the ll format utility burned in its eprom programming and it was
 MR> accessed by jumping to the execution address entry point using DEBUG.

  I was not aware of this capability in the old days. I had one MFM drive at
  the start but never even needed to format it.

 MR> Glad to have taught you some useless trivia! 

  You happiness is shared here. Not trivial at all. Part of MY knowledge
  base now. Thanks.   How can YOU do a ll now or were you talking about an
  old drive ?

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