21 Sep
2014
21 Sep
'14
9:29 a.m.
It seems to me that getting an 8" drive with a Shugart interface would make things a
lot easier for what Ali wants to do. After that, add an FDADAP, and either a PC with a
suitable FDC for use with ImageDisk, or one of the dedicated disk imaging interfaces such
as KryoFlux or Supercard Pro.
I have a KryoFlux that I can hook up to a Tandon TM848E drive. Maybe Ali and I should meet
at an SBUX some weekend for a disk imaging party? :) Keir Fraser (author of
https://github.com/keirf/Disk-Utilities ) has been pretty responsive about adding support
for new disk formats, so there's a good chance of being able to convert KryoFlux
images into something more portable like ImageDisk files and/or being able to write out
the images... if Disk Utilities can't already do that for the System/23 floppies, Keir
may be willing and able to add the support to do so.
I still don't have any floppies at all for my System/23, and I'd really like to
get my hands on the software I'd need to format floppies for it. So, if I can
contribute towards making an image of one of those floppies show up online, I'd like
to help! Once I can format blank disks for use with my System/23, I'll also image them
so that blank data disks can then be formatted with a KryoFlux, ImageDisk, etc.
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/