29 Dec
2003
29 Dec
'03
9:51 a.m.
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Rob O'Donnell wrote:
Spotted this on a UK auction site:
http://sumo.ebid.co.uk/perl/objects/auction.cgi?auction=1067709373-87555-0&…
Terrible description, though something of a bargain. (Seller has a few
other old bits too.)
But made me think, following on from a discussion of floppy formats
recently, I have an old ST506 style 10Mb HDD buried in the cupboard for my
BBC Micro system. Now I can't remember if it's got ADFS on it or an Econet
server partition, but probably the latter - are there any tools out there
that could read this if I hook it up to a PC, or am I best just connecting
it back to a Beeb and kermit'ing it all over?
Probably better to do it that way. The format of drives of that era
were very much a function of the BIOS on the HDC and unless you
were able to install a similar HDC in the PC, you would likely
have difficulties in reading the HD.
- don
Rob