Arfon Gryffydd wrote:
>
> Okay,
> 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.
A Model II is set up for 256-byte sectors, a "straight" copy may not
be the optimum solution -- a few interim steps may be necessary. I
have a Model II (and expansion drives -- no HD aside from the one in
the Tandy 6000 which I won't risk) but the guy who was setting it out
at the curb had already dumped all software. So I need some bootable
OS disks (these are _any_ Tandy applications -- they were _all_
bootable, though Scripsit was short several utilities to make more
room for the document file). It might take me an hour or two of
self hypnosis, but I used to be able to do sector copies of Model II
disks from BASIC to move the salvageable bits to another disk or to
files of various formats on other disks. With a few of my Linux
tools, I may even be able to make images on modern media, though I'm
unclear as to how to translate 77-track x 34 (256byte) sector media
to 80-track x 18 (512byte) sector media. I know it will fit fine --
whether it can be used directly if an adapter is made to connect the
new drives to the old hardware I don't know -- and track 0 was single
density IIRC, the boot ROM might be sticky.
I really wish I had my old collection of Model II media -- I never
realized that small loss in moving cross-country would hurt so much
years later.
By the way Arfon, how many generations back do we have to go to find
out where our family names diverged in Wales?
--
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Received on Tue Oct 27 1998 - 12:31:29 GMT