archiving Heath H8/H89 hard-sectored disks

From: Lyle Bickley <lbickley_at_bickleywest.com>
Date: Mon Aug 30 15:00:53 2004

I'll second that.

Lyle

On Monday 30 August 2004 12:49, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> 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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Lyle Bickley
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