Uploaded January 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
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This computer NEVER came with a 3.5" floppy drive, yet it used 5.25" floppy disks that were formatted to have 80 tracks instead of 40.
A video coming "soon" shall explain this entire story, and all the reasons why we tried to do this, and why we are so excited to see it actually work... so that you will have the most important thing: CONTEXT!
You can download the Full Format Success flux capture file here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1C6wxF3F69yPHYREGu4qqh08dYyKpZk_W/view?usp=drive_link
And
17:40 Download this file to check for yourself at drive.google.com/file/d/1Au9vDieJvdMkWiGEwUbmSUImOuZwX2R9/view?usp=sharing
convergentaws.blogspot.com
This computer NEVER came with a 3.5" floppy drive, yet it used 5.25" floppy disks that were formatted to have 80 tracks instead of 40.
A video coming "soon" shall explain this entire story, and all the reasons why we tried to do this, and why we are so excited to see it actually work... so that you will have the most important thing: CONTEXT!
You can download the Full Format Success flux capture file here:
drive.google.com/file/d/1C6wxF3F69yPHYREGu4qqh08dYyKpZk_W/view?usp=drive_link
And
17:40 Download this file to check for yourself at drive.google.com/file/d/1Au9vDieJvdMkWiGEwUbmSUImOuZwX2R9/view?usp=sharing
![[Fixed Audio] Convergent Technologies MightyFrame S/80 Bootup](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ZD4bGj_2DwM/mqdefault.jpg "[Fixed Audio] Convergent Technologies MightyFrame S/80 Bootup
The prominent hard drive sound you hear in the background is the modern hard drive on my Lenovo laptop on which I was running the terminal emulator, and the screen recording program. If you listen closely, you can still hear the sound of the very early-version SCSI hard drive in the MightyFrame in the background.
For the Terminal Emulator, I was using ZOC Terminal version ZOC/Pro 6.63
A complete text dump of the screen can be found at:
https://mightyframe.blogspot.com/2019/07/mightyframe-s80-bootup.html")
