9 Jan
2004
9 Jan
'04
9:29 p.m.
I thought I had those, but I could not find them. I can look again, but
let me know if they are 3.5 or 5.25 inches, it will cut down my search
a bit.
Joe Heck
9 Jan
9 Jan
11:28 p.m.
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 TRASH3(a)splab.cas.neu.edu wrote:
I thought I had those, but I could not find them. I
can look again, but
let me know if they are 3.5 or 5.25 inches, it will cut down my search
a bit.
8"
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10 Jan
10 Jan
10:11 a.m.
On Friday 09 January 2004 11:28 pm, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 TRASH3(a)splab.cas.neu.edu wrote:
did you get the special hi-end color model, it had 1024x768 8bit color unheard
of in those days... it was the first IBM PC clone i drooled over as a
teenager.
James
I thought I had those, but I could not find them.
I can look again, but
let me know if they are 3.5 or 5.25 inches, it will cut down my search
a bit.
8" 
11:25 a.m.
At 10:11 AM 1/10/04 -0600, James wrote:
On Friday 09 January 2004 11:28 pm, Vintage Computer
Festival wrote:
unheard
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 TRASH3(a)splab.cas.neu.edu
wrote:
did you get the special hi-end color model, it had 1024x768 8bit color I thought I had those, but I could not find them.
I can look again, but
let me know if they are 3.5 or 5.25 inches, it will cut down my search
a bit.
8" of in those days... it was the first IBM PC clone i
drooled over as a
teenager.
I have one and I have both MS-DOS and CPM-86 for it. But one of the sets
of disks that I got don't work well in it (I don't remember which set is
flaky). Either the drives are slightly out of alignment or the drives that
the disks were written on were. I suspect that the disks are out of
alignment since they behave exactly the same in either drive. The machine
seems to work fine otherwise. The color demo program is cool.
This machine was rescued from a group that collects and refurbs slightly
old PCs for various schools and chairities.
Joe
6:02 p.m.
Wasn't there an utility called "spinrite" that could recover data that was
laid down slightly out of alignment ?
Geoff.
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To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
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Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: NEC APC III diskettes?
did you get the special hi-end color model, it had 1024x768 8bit color unheard
sets
At 10:11 AM 1/10/04 -0600, James wrote:
>On Friday 09 January 2004 11:28 pm, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 TRASH3(a)splab.cas.neu.edu wrote:
>> > I thought I had those, but I could not find them. I can look again,
but
>> > let me know if they are 3.5 or 5.25
inches, it will cut down my
search
a bit.
8" of in those days... it was the first IBM PC clone
i drooled over as a
teenager.
I have one and I have both MS-DOS and CPM-86 for it. But one of the of disks that I got don't work well in it (I
don't remember which set is
flaky). Either the drives are slightly out of alignment or the drives that
the disks were written on were. I suspect that the disks are out of
alignment since they behave exactly the same in either drive. The machine
seems to work fine otherwise. The color demo program is cool.
This machine was rescued from a group that collects and refurbs slightly
old PCs for various schools and chairities.
Joe
8 p.m.
Spinrite will attempt to recover data from failing media and associated
CRC errors, invalid address headers, etc but I don't think any software can
recover data from an out of alignment drive. Also AFIK Spinrite only works
on hard drives and not floppy drives. Also, You have to get the machine
booted with MS-DOS first. And finally, I'd have to Spinrite on an 8" disk.
Joe
At 12:02 AM 1/11/04 +0000, you wrote:
Wasn't there an utility called "spinrite"
that could recover data that was
laid down slightly out of alignment ?
Geoff.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe" <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: NEC APC III diskettes?
unheard
sets
At 10:11 AM 1/10/04 -0600, James wrote:
>On Friday 09 January 2004 11:28 pm, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 TRASH3(a)splab.cas.neu.edu wrote:
>> > I thought I had those, but I could not find them. I can look again,
but
>> > let me know if they are 3.5 or 5.25
inches, it will cut down my
search
> a bit.
8"
did you get the special hi-end color model, it had 1024x768 8bit color of in those days... it was the first IBM PC clone
i drooled over as a
teenager.
I have one and I have both MS-DOS and CPM-86 for it. But one of the of disks that I got don't work well in it (I
don't remember which set is
flaky). Either the drives are slightly out of alignment or the drives that
the disks were written on were. I suspect that the disks are out of
alignment since they behave exactly the same in either drive. The machine
seems to work fine otherwise. The color demo program is cool.
This machine was rescued from a group that collects and refurbs slightly
old PCs for various schools and chairities.
Joe
11 Jan
11 Jan
4:36 p.m.
No , I'm sure it worked on floppies as well.
Geoff.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe" <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 2:00 AM
Subject: Re: NEC APC III diskettes?
Spinrite will attempt to recover data from failing
media and associated
CRC errors, invalid address headers, etc but I don't think any software
can
recover data from an out of alignment drive. Also
AFIK Spinrite only
works
on hard drives and not floppy drives. Also, You have
to get the machine
booted with MS-DOS first. And finally, I'd have to Spinrite on an 8" disk.
Joe
At 12:02 AM 1/11/04 +0000, you wrote:
>Wasn't there an utility called "spinrite" that could recover data that
was
>laid down slightly out of alignment ?
>
>Geoff.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Joe" <rigdonj(a)cfl.rr.com>
>To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
><cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
>Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 5:25 PM
>Subject: Re: NEC APC III diskettes?
>
>
>> At 10:11 AM 1/10/04 -0600, James wrote:
>> >On Friday 09 January 2004 11:28 pm, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
>> >> On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 TRASH3(a)splab.cas.neu.edu wrote:
>> >> > I thought I had those, but I could not find them. I can look
again,
>but
>> >> > let me know if they are 3.5 or 5.25 inches, it will cut down my
>search
>> >> > a bit.
>> >>
>> >> 8"
>> >
>> >did you get the special hi-end color model, it had 1024x768 8bit color
>> unheard
>> >of in those days... it was the first IBM PC clone i drooled over as a
>> >teenager.
>> >
>>
>> I have one and I have both MS-DOS and CPM-86 for it. But one of the
>sets
>> of disks that I got don't work well in it (I don't remember which set
is
>> flaky). Either the drives are slightly out of
alignment or the drives
that
>> the disks were written on were. I suspect
that the disks are out of
>> alignment since they behave exactly the same in either drive. The
machine
>> seems to work fine otherwise. The color demo
program is cool.
>>
>> This machine was rescued from a group that collects and refurbs
slightly
old PCs for various schools and chairities.
Joe
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