Can anyone read a 360K 5.25" NON-IBM floppy for me? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

5 Oct 2004

I have "several" MS-DOS machines with 5 1/4" floppy drives that would
probably do the job, and most versions of DOS from 1.1 on up through
6.22. I'll be down in LA this Saturday (Fullerton) and could bring a
machine, or we could meet and I could get the floppies, or ... :). Or
you could mail them up here (Santa Barbara), and I could retrieve the
text files. Let me know if you still need help with this.

Marvin

...
  From: Tom Jennings &lt;tomj(a)wps.com&gt; 
...
  I've got a few (meaning, one or two) old floppies
of mine that
 I found, and hope are still readable, one with the sole copy
 I know of of an 8086 ROM monitor debugger I used to bring up
 a lot of machines with.

 It's stored on a 360K 9-sector/track standard-formatted MSDOS
 diskette with the right fatID and all that, but it does NOT
 contain the IBM formatted crap in the boot sector that many
 PCDOS implementations require.

 Meaning, it will read fine (assuming it's still good) on MSDOS
 but probably not PCDOS. (On PCDOS diskettes like this generate
 something like "unformatted" error, Retry Ignore Abort.) 

 If anyone with such a capability could slurp off the source
 (text) files and simply email them to me, and toss the original
 media, I'd appreciate it. I'm in Los Angeles, but anywhere in
 North America would be cheap postage. 