16 May
2023
16 May
'23
10:30 p.m.
Tony in response to your original idea of wanting to download images for use on you
existing machines ( did i get that right?), i think you have everything you need already.
Download the images to your win 8 box then use file transfer software (kermit or xmodem)
to serially transfer to the specific box you want to use the software on and the use the
floppy on that box to write the floppies. It seems like there is a version of kermit made
for every box imaginable. The only possible gotcha is does the box have a serial port.
Sent from my iPhone
On May 16, 2023, at 15:06, Ethan Dicks via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 4:05 PM Dennis Boone via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
> At the most recent CoCoFEST!, I brought home
the old Glenside Club
> Computer Hard Drive. The mechanism is an ST-251...
<
The best way to approach this, given the
interchange issues with MFM
disk controllers, is probably to use one of Dave Gesswein's MFM Emulator
devices. It'll give you a flux image that can then be decode.
I have an MDM Emulator and it's nice, on those occasions you are
trying to read a supported drive (it supports a _lot_ of encodings,
but not every single platform).
Two layers - fortunately in this case, the low-level format is known
(WD1002A-WX1) and that's good. I'd totally expect an MFM Emulator to
be able to pull bytes off the drive. I am not a CoCo person so I have
no idea what tools can be used to pull files from a raw pile of disk
blocks there.
-ethan