On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Rob O'Donnell wrote:
> Spotted this on a UK auction site:
> http://sumo.ebid.co.uk/perl/objects/auction.cgi?auction=1067709373-87555-0&mo=auction
>
> Terrible description, though something of a bargain. (Seller has a few
> other old bits too.)
>
> But made me think, following on from a discussion of floppy formats
> recently, I have an old ST506 style 10Mb HDD buried in the cupboard for my
> BBC Micro system. Now I can't remember if it's got ADFS on it or an Econet
> server partition, but probably the latter - are there any tools out there
> that could read this if I hook it up to a PC, or am I best just connecting
> it back to a Beeb and kermit'ing it all over?
Probably better to do it that way. The format of drives of that era
were very much a function of the BIOS on the HDC and unless you
were able to install a similar HDC in the PC, you would likely
have difficulties in reading the HD.
- don
> Rob
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Received on Mon Dec 29 2003 - 17:51:11 GMT