4 Mar
2007
4 Mar
'07
12:20 p.m.
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.
I get the impression he's not into making connectors and
cables ... Also, the system is known to work - in fact,
he still has a couple of boot disks, but they are dedicated
to various software packages and he does not have the full
CP/M disk with utilities.
I was hoping that there might be someone in the UK who has
already got a working setup to recreate 8" diskettes with
ImageDisk - I can do it here, and make a boot disk which
works in my APC in a couple of minutes using the images
that I have posted on my site - If someone "over there"
can do this, it would be easier to get the diskette to
him.... Alternatively, is someone has a working APC with
working 8" drives, a copy of the disk made "native" would
be fine too.
Dave
PS: I posted the design for a very simple and easy to make
adapter to put an 8" drive on a PC using a standard 5.25"
PC cable on my site. Too me about 10 mins to make it.
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