1 Feb
2018
1 Feb
'18
10:09 p.m.
On 02/01/2018 01:44 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
On 02/01/2018 02:08 PM, Paul Berger via cctalk wrote:
It's pretty likely that the disks follow one of the standard IBM formats
described here:
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/ibm/floppy/GA21-9182-5_Dis…
Pretty much standard FM/MFM; easy enough if you still have a PC with a
legacy floppy interface.
After that, it's matter of interpreting what you get. Not a big deal,
really.
--Chuck
The drives that where used on the AS/400 are all
"industry standard"
drives so it should be easy to adapt one to a PC.
The drives may be standard, but I am curious how standard the format of
what's on the disk is.? How likely is it that a PC OS from the last ~30
years will understand how to read what's on the disk?
Or, I'm guessing it's likely that archival programs don't need to
understand how to read the disk format for raw disk imaging.