RE: RE: Extracting files off “unknown” 8 inch disks. Any thoughts…

All the PDP-11 ones. The directory listing would give a pretty good idea which one it was. I am prety sure VMS actually could, too. And then you have BSD and Ultrix on the VAX as well. Lots of choices. Believe it or not, I am pretty sure I can make a disk image from the floppies using VTServer that would then work on something like SIMH. Like I said, lots of choices. And it could all be done for the cost of postage I would imagine. I'm retired, and bored, always looking for things to keep me busy. Doesn't look like its going to warm up enough this year to do any work outside. Snow showers predicted for this weekend. :-( bill ________________________________________ From: cctalk [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] on behalf of Fred Cisin via cctalk [cctalk at classiccmp.org] Sent: Friday, May 5, 2017 3:33 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: RE: Extracting files off ?unknown? 8 inch disks. Any thoughts? On Fri, 5 May 2017, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: That's right. Chuck's suggestion would require that somebody who has a flux-transition device (Catweasel, Kryoflux, Central Point Option board, etc.) would have to do the sector imaging. Well, or, . . . somebody who has an RX02 setup, such as you or Allison, could image the sectors, instead of copying the files, which might be appropriate if it turns out that the OS that these were created with is unavailable. How many operating systems use RX02? -- Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com