if you get the little asterisk on yer screen there,
you're probably alright. I recently pulled the floppy
drives out of one of my APCs aiming to plug them into
a pc using Dave Dunfield's instructions (those NEC
drives use a 50pin plug, so I'm going to have to
either etch an adapter board or do something else
freaky). Once there, I presumably could not only image
the disks I do have (condition unknown) - Dos, DBase
II, and Autocad I think - but also create boot disks
from Dave's or my images. I don't put alot of
stock in
old floppies, but when the golden day comes, I could
mail you a disk or two, don't know if they'd work or
not, but that's not going to be this week. Probably
not next or the week after either. The other option is
to set up a modern pc with a hd 1.2meg 5 1/4" drive,
burn images to that, then plug that into your APC.
Worth a try.
--- Dave Dunfield <dave06a at dunfield.com> wrote:
Anybody out
there willing to snail mail me a
couple of 8" boot disks for the
original APC? I've got 2 of these sitting
around
with no software, wanted to
test them out. If so please contact me off-list.
I have images of MS-DOS, CP/M-86 and UCSD Pascal
boot disks for the
APC posted to my site (ImageDisk format).
--
dave06a (at) Dave Dunfield
dunfield (dot) Firmware development services &
tools:
www.dunfield.com
com Collector of vintage computing
equipment:
http://www.parse.com/~ddunfield/museum/index.html
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