4 Mar
2007
4 Mar
'07
10:35 a.m.
--- Dave Dunfield <dave06a at dunfield.com> wrote:
I received an email from a gentleman in Burnley,
England
who has recently received a NEC APC, and managed to
format
A: instead of B: while attempting to backup the only
system
disk ... (and he didn't have it write protected).
He's found my APC images, but he's not setup to make
a
8" disk on a PC. He's asked for my help, however I
wanted to check and see if there's someone closer to
him
(I'm in Canada, so it's a fair ways to post disks).
He needs someone who can either write my DOS 2.11
disk
image to an 8" floppy for him (it's in ImageDisk
format),
or someone who has a working APC and can simply copy
the
DOS 2.11 boot disk. He has blank disks - he just
needs
someone who can put the system on one for him.
Can anyone help? Please contact me and I'll
connect the
two of you.
Assuming I could get a 5 1/4" HD drive to work in one
of my APC's (assuming the 2nd still works, the first,
although working when I acquired it, has since given
up the ghost), and have a computer that likes ID (or a
computer that ID likes?) for dumping the image onto a
5 1/4, it's possibly I could get one together in a
matter of weeks. This assumes though that the 8" disks
that I do have work - don't really know.
Wouldn't it be better for this gentleman to get a 5
1/4" or 3.5" drive working in his APC? I had been
working on an adapter to do the opposite - to connect
one of the 8" floppies to a peecee, but I guess I got
distracted and the project fell by the wayside.
The APC utilizes a 50 pin cable w/headers on each
end, like a SCSI cable. Therefore you would need a
little printed circuit board that on one side you'd
solder a header connector to (to alleviate the hassle
of drilling holes) and that would plug into the APC's
floppy cable. The other side of the boards would need
to mate with a standard floppy cable that would get
plugged into the 5 1/4" HD drive (or 3.5"?). Sound
reasonable? I could promise I could get to this in
reasonable time, but to do so would be lying.
If no one is capable of supplying this dude w/what he
needs, I suppose you could forward my addy to him
Dave, and he can bug me for it.
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