25 Jul
2006
25 Jul
'06
6:27 p.m.
> I've got a rather ancient 8" diskette
(hard-sectored; 32 sectors) with the
> Harris Lanier brand on it.
> It looks to be MFM with the usual n, 1.5n and 2n frequency distribution,
> but I'm not getting much meaningful from digesting the bitstream.
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Nico de Jong wrote:
Could it be a 6 or 7-bit character set ? I've seen
some funny things,
especially in word processing. If the high order bit always is ON, you could
try to set it OFF. If you mail me a few K, I could have a look at it
. . . or inverted data (ala Superbrain),
or EBCDIC (ala some Seikos),
or compressed or encrypted?