8" floppy system needed to recover old game data - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Oct 2005

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  -----Original Message-----
 From: Dave Mabry

 There has been lots of discussion lately about 8" formats.  
 Perhaps we might be lucky here.  There is a chance that the 
 8" diskettes in question here were written in the one 
 standard 8" format.  Single-sided, single-density.  If that 
 is the case then there are lots of cp/m systems that can read 
 those diskettes.  Even my Intel development systems can read 
 that format!  And I would be happy to transfer the files to 
 today's format, whatever form that might be.  However I am 
 not on the left coast and the diskettes would have to travel 
 through the postal system or UPS, etc., to get to me and back.

 Do you have a way to determine if the diskettes are SS, SD ??? 
I think ultimately, before we get further with this, I need to go back
to the developer and try to get some more information on the system
involved. If they can remember anyway!

I'll do that, and then report back. :)

Kieron

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