R: Winchester SA1004 file recovering

[Enrico email.it]

It's a bit very expensive to shipping a SA-1000 from U.S. to Italy....
almost over than 200 USD



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Da: cctech [mailto:cctech-bounces at classiccmp.org] Per conto di jim stephens
via cctech
Inviato: mercoledì 3 febbraio 2021 12:18
A: Enrico email.it via cctalk
Oggetto: Re: Winchester SA1004 file recovering



On 2/3/2021 1:43 AM, Enrico email.it via cctalk wrote:
> Any suggestion?
I believe Dave G's MFM emulator has an option to support the SA1000.

I have one in stock for a future project to try to extract data from 
SA-1000's in DSD floppy / 8" drive subsystems.

https://www.pdp8.net/mfm/mfm.shtml

info is there about the SA-1000.

If you are having problems because the drives are dead, this won't 
help.  It will inhale the contents and with
luck you can extract data.

I know with the ST-506 configuration of his hardware, you can then use 
the emulator to replace the SA-1000.

If you need to recover the data, you may be out of luck, but if you need 
a "working" SA-1000 and can format
it from utilities, then this may help.

thanks
Jim