On Sun, 29 Aug 2004, Dan Lanciani wrote:
> 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)?
Hi Dan.
By all means, please post some technical details.
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