> For anyone interested (Larry).... I am going home (to Virginia) for
>thanksgiving and I will pull out one of my model IIs and get all of the
>still useable software and manuals. I will make copies available to
>anyone who wants if someone can tell me how to copy the 8" discs to a file
>on a PC (either using Linux or Dos).
> I can serial port the machines togethet but, I have no idea how to read
>off all the sectors of the 8 inches.
This is a question that has been dealt with very thoroughly in the
past.
Sydex (
http://www.sydex.com/) has some very excellent software
available for dealing with "foreign" floppy formats, and can deal
with many (but not all) 8" floppy formats. Instead of going into
great detail on how to use these tools, I will instead just refer
you to the CP/M FAQ at
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/CPM-faq/faq.html
specifically, Q14: "Can I read my 8" disks with my PC?"
I hope nobody takes this reply as a brush-off as a result of
a good fraction of my business coming from reading old media,
including (but by no means limited to) 8" floppy disks. Even though
references to non-mailing-list resources seem to very sparse
on the CLASSICCMP mailing list, I just want folks to know that
there *are* very useful FAQ's out there that deal with the issue
thoroughly already.
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Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa_at_trailing-edge.com
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Received on Tue Oct 27 1998 - 10:05:30 GMT