NEC APC III diskettes?

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Sat Jan 10 20:00:55 2004

  Spinrite will attempt to recover data from failing media and associated
CRC errors, invalid address headers, etc but I don't think any software can
recover data from an out of alignment drive. Also AFIK Spinrite only works
on hard drives and not floppy drives. Also, You have to get the machine
booted with MS-DOS first. And finally, I'd have to Spinrite on an 8" disk.

    Joe

At 12:02 AM 1/11/04 +0000, you wrote:
>Wasn't there an utility called "spinrite" that could recover data that was
>laid down slightly out of alignment ?
>
>Geoff.
>
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>> 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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