archiving Heath H8/H89 hard-sectored disks

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwight.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Mon Aug 30 12:25:52 2004

Hi Dan
 We have a separate mail group specifically for H8/H89
and also a program archive. We are interested in disk
images as well. I have written a bootstrap method of bringing
a H8/H89 machine up from scratch with a serial cable and
some blank disk. This can also be used as a general disk image
transfer program.
 We would like to get any information on your methods into
the archive and also images you may have.
 Send a message to <majordomo_at_staunch89er.com> with body:
 
 subscribe sebhc

 To get to the mail group. It is a quite group right now
but the archives have a lot of good stuff.
Dwight

>From: "Dan Lanciani" <ddl-cctech_at_danlan.com>
>
>I've come up with a way to read Heath hard-sectored disks with a 1797-style
>controller (with some modifications). I've now archived all of my old disks
>with only one unrecoverable error in an unused sector (not bad for media that
>is approaching 30 years in age). I do seem to have run through *drives* at
>an alarming rate, though I hope that the cleaning disks I have on order will
>restore some of them. Is anyone interested in:
>
>-Technical details (the method should work for many non-standard FM formats)?
>
>-Having me read any H8 disks?
>
>-Any distribution images that I might have?
>
> Dan Lanciani
> ddl_at_danlan.*com
>
Received on Mon Aug 30 2004 - 12:25:52 BST