On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, jim stephens wrote:
I think the 3 1/2" disks might be easier to
recover data from, since it
might have been hooked
up thru a "real" floppy controller, rather than apples annoying 5 1/4
system.
That would have made sense. Therefore, NO.
The format from that controller was bizarre enough I
don't know if there
was any way
to read them on the IBM PC's disks.
It is, of course, "impossible".
But there are some amazingly ridiculous kludges, involving things such as
switching drive select in mid read! (sorry, no single drive Dells :-)
Maybe something like the copy 2
option board
might read the data and store it. does 22/disk read those?
The option board
hardware can do it, but Central Point actively did NOT
want third party software written for it.
Catweasel also can handle the hardware issue, but what software is
available?
There were half a dozen "flux-transition" boards that interrupted the
cable between FDC and drive.