10 Jan
2004
10 Jan
'04
6:02 p.m.
Wasn't there an utility called "spinrite" that could recover data that was
laid down slightly out of alignment ?
Geoff.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe" <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: NEC APC III diskettes?
did you get the special hi-end color model, it had 1024x768 8bit color unheard
sets
At 10:11 AM 1/10/04 -0600, James wrote:
>On Friday 09 January 2004 11:28 pm, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 TRASH3(a)splab.cas.neu.edu wrote:
>> > I thought I had those, but I could not find them. I can look again,
but
>> > let me know if they are 3.5 or 5.25
inches, it will cut down my
search
a bit.
8" of in those days... it was the first IBM PC clone
i drooled over as a
teenager.
I have one and I have both MS-DOS and CPM-86 for it. But one of the of disks that I got don't work well in it (I
don't remember which set is
flaky). Either the drives are slightly out of alignment or the drives that
the disks were written on were. I suspect that the disks are out of
alignment since they behave exactly the same in either drive. The machine
seems to work fine otherwise. The color demo program is cool.
This machine was rescued from a group that collects and refurbs slightly
old PCs for various schools and chairities.
Joe