13 Oct
2011
13 Oct
'11
8:58 p.m.
On 9/29/2011 7:52 PM, Josh Dersch wrote:
I snagged these, and I have a rig set up to archive 8" floppies --
I'll definitely be making images of them. I'll let you know!
Josh
The disks arrived yesterday and I attempted to make disk images of them,
the ones I was able to read are in IMD format at:
http://yahozna.dyndns.org/scratch/altos/
Some neat stuff, a copy of BDS-C, COBOL-80 and MBASIC for the Altos. I
am not having much luck capturing images of the CP/M disks, however.
They appear to be single-sided, double-density. The first two tracks
are SD and have 26 sectors per track, the rest are DD and have 48
sectors/track which is where my system appears to have trouble,
ImageDisk just won't read the DD tracks. If anyone has any suggestions,
let me know.
Otherwise, I'll dig my Altos out of the closet and code up a simple
utility to dump the disks over the serial port... eventually.
Josh