11 Jul
2006
11 Jul
'06
8:47 a.m.
Al Kossow wrote:
Hmm, good point - I had 'floppy-based' stuck in my head and completely missed
that the fax we've got says that they're 8". That suggests it's a pretty
early
Apollo and well before the 3000 or 4000 series.
At least if they're 8" disks then the recording density is pretty low and so
there's a good chance they're intact. OTOH, I've never tried hooking up an
8"
drive to a modern machine (i.e. PC) and tried Imagedisk (for example) with it.
cheers
Jules
The floppy
drive appeared to be a standard PC style 5 1/4" drive.
It would be a good thing to try Imagedisk on these to try to get the
software archived.
I've had pretty good luck with reading 5" floppies. 8" is another story...