NEC APC III diskettes?

From: Geoffrey Thomas <geoffreythomas_at_onetel.net.uk>
Date: Sat Jan 10 18:02:51 2004

Wasn't there an utility called "spinrite" that could recover data that was
laid down slightly out of alignment ?

Geoff.

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From: "Joe" <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
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Subject: Re: NEC APC III diskettes?


> At 10:11 AM 1/10/04 -0600, James wrote:
> >On Friday 09 January 2004 11:28 pm, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
> >> On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 TRASH3_at_splab.cas.neu.edu wrote:
> >> > I thought I had those, but I could not find them. I can look again,
but
> >> > let me know if they are 3.5 or 5.25 inches, it will cut down my
search
> >> > a bit.
> >>
> >> 8"
> >
> >did you get the special hi-end color model, it had 1024x768 8bit color
> unheard
> >of in those days... it was the first IBM PC clone i drooled over as a
> >teenager.
> >
>
> I have one and I have both MS-DOS and CPM-86 for it. But one of the
sets
> of disks that I got don't work well in it (I don't remember which set is
> flaky). Either the drives are slightly out of alignment or the drives that
> the disks were written on were. I suspect that the disks are out of
> alignment since they behave exactly the same in either drive. The machine
> seems to work fine otherwise. The color demo program is cool.
>
> This machine was rescued from a group that collects and refurbs slightly
> old PCs for various schools and chairities.
>
> Joe
>
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