On Sun, 6 Oct 2002, Fred Cisin (XenoSoft) wrote:
We had an old
Altos 3068 (running a 68010 chip I belive) that died. We are
in need of transferring some data
from the floppys written on that machine to our new server. These were
written using the IBM format.
Do you have any ideas on what we could try?
Please reply to the email below, not to me.
I just don't have the strength and energy right now to correspond with
somebody until they identify the disk diameter, density, and operating
system more explicitly and specifically than "the IBM format".
Perhaps somebody else here has enough familiarity with his model of
computer to provide some of the information that he failed to.
Fred, several sites that I dug up via google show the mass storage of
the machine to be 5.25" 1.2MB floppy and 20MB hard disk. Sounds like
it used 512 byte sectors in Unix form.
- don
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Fred Cisin cisin(a)xenosoft.com
XenoSoft
http://www.xenosoft.com