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by: Tomas Slavotinek - Tue, 11 Oct 2022 20:05 UTC

On Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 8:26:44 PM UTC+2, richard smice wrote:
> I thought that they were the same but they are not..
> It looks like it will boot but does not.
>
> my tandy 5000 systems instantly recognize the "new" reference diskette.

Try booting to QBMCA or some other refstamped disk and check the planar ID and machine model/submodel values.

Take photos of the planar so we can compare it to the Tandy one... (and create a page about it, if it differs).

Might be just a software/artificial incompatibility or an actual hardware difference.

Subject	Author
I have an old grid 386 mc system and cannot get it to boot on a tandy	richard smice
Re: I have an old grid 386 mc system and cannot get it to boot on a	Tomas Slavotinek