1 Dec
2008
1 Dec
'08
11:42 a.m.
steven stengel wrote:
Hello,
A gentleman from the East Coast contacted me to see if I can extract old BASIC programs
from his IBM-5110 8-inch floppy disks.
I have a working IBM-5120 with internal floppy drives, but the serial communications
option is not installed in my system.
I think the best I can do is LIST the programs and photograph the screen.
Any other ideas?
Anyone else with a serial port who can do it?
Anyone with a spare communications card?
how many programs do you need to convert? if it is more than one, probably the best bet
is this:
read the disks using a modern PC equipped with 8" drives, capturing the disk image
with
Dave Dunfield's IMD program. Then write a program on the PC which understands the
disk
and file structure, dumping out the program listing.