On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
> > We had an old Altos 3068 (running a 68010 chip I belive) that died. We are
> > in need of transferring some data
> > from the floppys written on that machine to our new server. These were
> > written using the IBM format.
> > Do you have any ideas on what we could try?
>
> > Please reply to the email below, not to me.
>
> I just don't have the strength and energy right now to correspond with
> somebody until they identify the disk diameter, density, and operating
> system more explicitly and specifically than "the IBM format".
>
> Perhaps somebody else here has enough familiarity with his model of
> computer to provide some of the information that he failed to.
Fred, several sites that I dug up via google show the mass storage of
the machine to be 5.25" 1.2MB floppy and 20MB hard disk. Sounds like
it used 512 byte sectors in Unix form.
- don
>
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> Fred Cisin cisin_at_xenosoft.com
> XenoSoft http://www.xenosoft.com
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Received on Sun Oct 06 2002 - 19:53:00 BST