NEC APC III diskettes?

From: Geoffrey Thomas <geoffreythomas_at_onetel.net.uk>
Date: Sun Jan 11 16:36:30 2004

No , I'm sure it worked on floppies as well.

Geoff.

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From: "Joe" <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
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> 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.
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Joe" <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
> >To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
> ><cctalk_at_classiccmp.org>
> >Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 5:25 PM
> >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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