27 Oct
1998
27 Oct
'98
2:05 a.m.
For anyone interested (Larry).... I am going
home (to Virginia) for
thanksgiving and I will pull out one of my model IIs and get all of the
still useable software and manuals. I will make copies available to
anyone who wants if someone can tell me how to copy the 8" discs to a file
on a PC (either using Linux or Dos).
I can serial port the machines togethet but, I have no idea how to read
off all the sectors of the 8 inches.
This is a question that has been dealt with very thoroughly in the
past.
Sydex (http://www.sydex.com/) has some very excellent software
available for dealing with "foreign" floppy formats, and can deal
with many (but not all) 8" floppy formats. Instead of going into
great detail on how to use these tools, I will instead just refer
you to the CP/M FAQ at
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/CPM-faq/faq.html
specifically, Q14: "Can I read my 8" disks with my PC?"
I hope nobody takes this reply as a brush-off as a result of
a good fraction of my business coming from reading old media,
including (but by no means limited to) 8" floppy disks. Even though
references to non-mailing-list resources seem to very sparse
on the CLASSICCMP mailing list, I just want folks to know that
there *are* very useful FAQ's out there that deal with the issue
thoroughly already.
--
Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com
Trailing Edge Technology Voice: 301-767-5917
7328 Bradley Blvd Fax: 301-767-5927
Bethesda, MD, USA 20817
27 Oct
27 Oct
7:11 a.m.
On 27 Oct 98 at 11:05, CLASSICCMP(a)trailing-edge.com wrote:
Sure glad that wasn't a brush-off Tim. It's always simple to do
something
that you've done many times before. In rereading the CPM/faq I do see
answers to some questions that I wasn't able to understand the import of
before. TMK tho the Sydex programs ( and I've used 22disk and Rainbow )
only deal with CP/M and some non-Dos formats. While it does give instructions
of how to build a cable even the faq mentions the difficulty of dealing with
other formats. Understandable since it's a CP/M FAQ
The TRS m.II uses CP/M but also TRSDOS and I also have the Xenix
disks. With the resources available I will manage to transfer these to 5 1/4
disks at some point but it is not a trivial feat for many of us. Even Tim Mann
who is writing a m.II addition to his Unix emulator xtrs was unable to answer
many of my questions. Pete Turnbull and Tony provided some good info regarding
this on classic comp but it is a problem that is in no way exhausted.
For example I have a bunch of poems written by my son and other data that
I want to get off 8'' disks from a Phillips Micom2000 word processor that I
don't have a clue as to what format they were using. I'm sure many on the list
have never dealt with this. Any informative tips are useful to all of us.
While there are lots of resources out there it's not easy to sort through the
vast volume of dross to get to the meat. Tim Mann directed me to a site that is
quite helpful
http://www.warez.com/home.htm (not a warez site)
It has some programs that can transfer raw data.
I hope nobody takes this as a flame. :^))
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com
For
anyone interested (Larry).... I am going home (to Virginia) for
thanksgiving and I will pull out one of my model IIs and get all of the
still useable software and manuals. I will make copies available to
anyone who wants if someone can tell me how to copy the 8" discs to a file
on a PC (either using Linux or Dos).
I can serial port the machines togethet but, I have no idea how to read
off all the sectors of the 8 inches.
This is a question that has been dealt with very thoroughly in the
past.
Sydex (http://www.sydex.com/) has some very excellent software
available for dealing with "foreign" floppy formats, and can deal
with many (but not all) 8" floppy formats. Instead of going into
great detail on how to use these tools, I will instead just refer
you to the CP/M FAQ at
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/CPM-faq/faq.html
specifically, Q14: "Can I read my 8" disks with my PC?"
I hope nobody takes this reply as a brush-off as a result of
a good fraction of my business coming from reading old media,
including (but by no means limited to) 8" floppy disks. Even though
references to non-mailing-list resources seem to very sparse
on the CLASSICCMP mailing list, I just want folks to know that
there *are* very useful FAQ's out there that deal with the issue
thoroughly already.
--
Tim Shoppa Email: shoppa(a)trailing-edge.com
Trailing Edge Technology Voice: 301-767-5917
7328 Bradley Blvd Fax: 301-767-5927
Bethesda, MD, USA 20817
12:20 p.m.
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Lawrence Walker wrote:
http://www.warez.com/home.htm (not a
warez site)
It has some programs that can transfer raw data.
Um, this doesn't having any programs that transfer raw data, but on the
other hand it does contain some rather raw hard core porn pictures. Are
you sure you got this URL right? :)
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com
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10:04 a.m.
On 27 Oct 98 at 18:20, Sam Ismail wrote:
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Lawrence Walker wrote:
Oops that should have been
http://www.diskwarez.com/stuff.htm
Hmm Now where did you place your period to get the raw hard porn ?
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com
http://www.warez.com/home.htm (not
a warez site)
It has some programs that can transfer raw data.
Um, this doesn't having any programs that transfer raw data, but on the
other hand it does contain some rather raw hard core porn pictures. Are
you sure you got this URL right? :)
Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar(a)siconic.com 
11:03 p.m.
[www.warez.com/home.htm]
Umm... That's warez and porn. Did you post the wrong line from your
bookmarks file or something?
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28 Oct
28 Oct
4:38 a.m.
On 28 Oct 98 at 5:03, Daniel A. Seagraves wrote:
[www.warez.com/home.htm]
Umm... That's warez and porn. Did you post the wrong line from your
bookmarks file or something?
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Talk about m-bare-ass-ment . It should of course been www.diskwarez.com
Must have been some some sort of freudian subliminal slip. You guys found the
porn site quicker than I tho. Until I was tipped to leave out the html file,
all I got was error 404 site not found. Hmmm is the relationship between warez
and porn hormonal teen-age angst ?
The real site does have a lot of an other sort of interesting stuff available
tho.
ciao larry
lwalker(a)interlog.com
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