[COFF] Old non-Unix software and manuals.

[Warner Losh]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2020, 9:18 PM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 9 Mar 2020, Warren Toomey wrote:
>
> > I still have a 5¼" floppy drive, not sure I have a PC to plug it in to.
> > Give me a few days and I'll let you know.
>
> Don't forget that there were many "standards" for those things; a popular
> utility was "Alien" for MS/DOS, which accessed the hardware.  There was
> also a version for ye olde Microbee called "Bee-Alien"; I made heavy use
> of it :-)
>

That's why I got a kyroflux...  too hard to find an old enough pc that the
floppy controller supports the full range of crazy that once roamed the
earth...

Warner

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