HP2000 and old archive stuff NOT on 9-track (apple2 transfer??)??

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Sun Dec 14 11:26:29 2003

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Bob Brown wrote:

> Now when I connect, I ALWAYS get it to start transferring and then ALWAYS
> end up with:
>
> Track $00, sector $F: bad CRC

Bob, you've got a bad sector on the disk you're trying to transfer.

> since the comm set up worked to get the ADT stuff to apple, I thought it
> would work ok the other way (thought

Do you mean to say that you thought you'd be able to transfer disk images
from the PC to the Apple?

> though, if it helps, when I got the comms working, I would trype on my pc
> and it would show up great on my apple, but it would show up as garbage on
> my pc.

Do you have matched baud rates, parity, stop bits, etc. on both sides?

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