Uploaded June 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
I bought an H-47 to go with my Heathkit H8 computer. This would have been a considerable upgrade back in the early 80s, going from the H-17 which offered 100KB per disk (later 200KB with double-sided support) to the H-47 which had one megabye per disk. The H47 is also considerably faster than the H17. In the video I take a few quick looks at the internals, then I format and sysgen a disk on my H8, prove that we can read files from it, prove that the disk can be read in the other drive. Then I try to boot it, which didn't quite work, but we're workin' on that... :) For more vintage computer videos, see smbaker.com
I bought an H-47 to go with my Heathkit H8 computer. This would have been a considerable upgrade back in the early 80s, going from the H-17 which offered 100KB per disk (later 200KB with double-sided support) to the H-47 which had one megabye per disk. The H47 is also considerably faster than the H17. In the video I take a few quick looks at the internals, then I format and sysgen a disk on my H8, prove that we can read files from it, prove that the disk can be read in the other drive. Then I try to boot it, which didn't quite work, but we're workin' on that... :) For more vintage computer videos, see smbaker.com
