11 Sep
2001
11 Sep
'01
5:56 a.m.
"Bob Stek" <r.stek(a)snet.net> said:
If it provides motivation for one of you hardware
types with nothing
better to do, I'd lend my support to requesting an add-in card which
could handle the 10 and 16 hole 5.25" disks and the 32 hole 8 inchers as
well (I have a lot of ProcTech Helios disks).
I'm confused (which happens often).
Isn't this one of the reasons we keep these old
machines running.
If I need to read a 10 sector N* disk, I setup
a Horizon with a laptop as the terminal. And then
using the N* monitor I load a group of blocks from
the disk into memory and then dump that memory to
the terminal with logging turned on. Dumping 32K
at a time, it takes several dumps before I have the
whole disk, but it's a whole lot easier then building
a special controller.
Just one lazy man's solution.
--Doug
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Doug Coward
@ home in Poulsbo, WA
Analog Computer Online Museum and History Center
http://www.best.com/~dcoward/analog
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