Extracting CDOS and CP/M) files

<snip> ----------- Admittedly a problem when trying to read their disks with today's crippled controllers, but their use of a common SD Track 0 meant that without any configuration changes the OS could concurrently and transparently read a mix of at least 8 different types of disks; not many systems of that day could do that. Want to copy your SDSS 8" disk to a DDDS 5" one? No problem. Friend or business partner has some data on SDSS 5" disks that you want on DDDS 8"? Just pop in the disks and copy away; add some software and you can even copy to/from MS-DOS disks if you must. Run Z80 CDOS/CP/M Wordstar on your 68000 Cromix+ CS-400? No sweat (although a different issue). Process your old CDOS data files with your UNIX software? Not much harder. It all just looks different from today's PC-centric perspective. mike