4 Aug
1998
4 Aug
'98
1:42 p.m.
Rax wrote:
(community) My grandfather has 20 years of his
life's work stored on a 1982
Pitney Bowes Word Processor 6000 and the whole thing has gone kaput. It
used those large double sided, double density diskettes (also copyright
1982). All I have is the reorder number on these diskettes: 169501. I need
to get the stuff on paper someohow so I can scan it all into the new PC I'm
getting him (unless it can be downloaded onto disk?). If you can tackle
this one, the machine is yours.
Jerome Fine replies:
I would need more information on the diskettes. Are they 8" floppies
might they be compatible with the old original IBM format that was
1/4 Megabyte per side - called single density for a DEC RX02?
The DEC RX01 used exactly that density. Note that these are
soft sectored with only one index hole. The interleave would be
of concern since each sector was only 128 bytes (if I remember
correctly - 4 * 128 = 512 bytes per block). If anyone else
thinks of or knows the exact floppy hardware details, please
say so!! That is about all I could do with the existing DEC
compatible equipment that I have access to from a friend.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine