Casio CZ/ VZ/ FZ - Pro Series

ah..i was thinking the 2HD were ok for atari, and was about 
to get rid of 200 DD disks... since DD don't seem to read 
on PC. have to transfer over a load of old atari stuff i 
want to use. what's the score on this?

--- In CZsynth@yahoogroups.com, Gordon JC Pearce <gordon@...> wrote:
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> On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 12:26:17AM +0100, Jason Adkins wrote:
> > The Atari DIN leads should be fine on PC too, the UA-4FX has normal  
> > midi connectors as well as usb.
> 
> One thing to watch with cheapy USB leads is they can do some funny "interpreting" of the MIDI messages.  I have one that *seems* to pass sysex just fine but reformats running status so that it has status bytes, and won't pass "unformatted" data which is a pain in the arse when using it with devices that can present a serial terminal over MIDI ;-)
> 
> > As I have said a million times before,tape the hole up on 1.44mb  
> > floppies then the ST will accept them although 720kb discs are not that
> > difficult to get.
> 
> ... for about a week.  Just get proper DD floppies.  HD floppies are bad enough when you use them in HD drives, without trying to get them to work in DD drives.  The disks are completely different, and really should have had more of a difference than just one hole.
> 
> > I don't know much about programming computers,but I do about sequencers.
> > The ST uses an interesting midi out which splits the signals into out  
> > and thru on the one lead but I have never had a problem in 10 years  
> > ever with a standard lead.
> 
> I'd forgotten about that!  20 years ago or so I made up a MIDI out/through lead for my ST, and have used the MIDI through connection once, to test it.
> 
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