7 May
2016
7 May
'16
8:24 a.m.
On 05/06/2016 01:47 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
And if anyone cares, you can't create floppy
images from the really old softpaqs
on modern PCs. I ended up having to shuttle an IDE disk to the Portable 486 and
run the image copy program on there
Yes, I found that too for the early Deskpro stuff. It might be possible to
extract real data from the softpaqs without too much trouble, but for the
number of times I was expecting to do it, it didn't seem worth the time and
I just shunted things across to an old 486 machine and wrote images there.
cheers
Jules