archiving Heath H8/H89 hard-sectored disks

"Jay West" <jwest(a)classiccmp.org> wrote: |It was written... |> I've come up with a way to read Heath hard-sectored disks with a |1797-style |> controller (with some modifications). I've now archived all of my old |disks |> with only one unrecoverable error in an unused sector (not bad for media |that |> is approaching 30 years in age). I do seem to have run through *drives* |at |> an alarming rate, though I hope that the cleaning disks I have on order |will |> restore some of them. Is anyone interested in: | |I have a huge cache of H8/H89/Z100 software, half a room full at the least |(the other half of the room being documentation for same). Where are you |located? Gloucester, MA |I'd rather not ship it all, but would welcome someone to come over |and archive the bits. I'd rather not move my computer, though. It's already reaching that sensitive-to-shock stage, especially the Ethernet card. (Yes, my H100 has Ethernet, which is very convenient for the archiving process.) |I would bet I have more than a few spare hard sector drives as well, many |new in the box. That might be good, since my cleaning kits arrived and they do not appear to restore the drives in question. :( Of course, they just use isopropyl alcohol which was never as good as the (now evil) chlorinated hydrocarbon solvents. I wonder if there is something stronger I can use? Dan Lanciani ddl(a)danlan.*com