On 27 Oct 98 at 11:05, CLASSICCMP_at_trailing-edge.com wrote:
> > 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.
>
> --
> Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa_at_trailing-edge.com
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>
Sure glad that wasn't a brush-off Tim. It's always simple to do something
that you've done many times before. In rereading the CPM/faq I do see
answers to some questions that I wasn't able to understand the import of
before. TMK tho the Sydex programs ( and I've used 22disk and Rainbow )
only deal with CP/M and some non-Dos formats. While it does give instructions
of how to build a cable even the faq mentions the difficulty of dealing with
other formats. Understandable since it's a CP/M FAQ
The TRS m.II uses CP/M but also TRSDOS and I also have the Xenix
disks. With the resources available I will manage to transfer these to 5 1/4
disks at some point but it is not a trivial feat for many of us. Even Tim Mann
who is writing a m.II addition to his Unix emulator xtrs was unable to answer
many of my questions. Pete Turnbull and Tony provided some good info regarding
this on classic comp but it is a problem that is in no way exhausted.
For example I have a bunch of poems written by my son and other data that
I want to get off 8'' disks from a Phillips Micom2000 word processor that I
don't have a clue as to what format they were using. I'm sure many on the list
have never dealt with this. Any informative tips are useful to all of us.
While there are lots of resources out there it's not easy to sort through the
vast volume of dross to get to the meat. Tim Mann directed me to a site that is
quite helpful
http://www.warez.com/home.htm (not a warez site)
It has some programs that can transfer raw data.
I hope nobody takes this as a flame. :^))
ciao larry
lwalker_at_interlog.com
Received on Tue Oct 27 1998 - 15:11:04 GMT