Re: Extracting files off “unknown” 8 inch disks. Any thoughts…

[Terry Stewart]

?Anadisk tells me the disks are Single Sided, Single Density.
> It can see ID marks as it tracks a disk but that is all.  It can't see
any data.
>Could be an RX02 disk as people say....

Oh, and sector size is 128 bytes.


On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Terry Stewart <terry at webweavers.co.nz>
wrote:

> >In case not everyone noticed, but Terry's already given up on this
>
> Lol, true. The disks will be given back on Monday.  It's no big deal.  The
> owners can decided what they want to do.  Even if I can't read it the
> disks, however, pondering just what the format might be is fun. I'm
> certainly learning something. Feel free to keep speculating if you are so
> inclined.
>
> >I still think the best suggestion was the one about posting what's on the
> >printed sheet that appears to be a directory listing
>
> Here it is:
>
> http://www.classic-computers.org.nz/blog/images/2017-04-15-
> vax-disk-cover.jpg
>
> Some more info.  Anadisk tells me the disks are Single Sided, Single
> Density.  It can see ID marks as it tracks a disk but that is all.  It
> can't see any data.  Could be an RX02 disk as people say...
>
> Terry (Tez)
>
>
> On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 8:50 AM, allison via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On 05/05/2017 03:39 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
>> >> > Terry is doing it for fun; we can't expect the others to.
>> >
>> > On Fri, 5 May 2017, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
>> >> I would.  :-)  Or maybe for beer.
>> >
>> > I doubt that Allison will want to underbid THAT!
>> >
>> >
>> Free beer?!?  No, no,no...
>>
>> Allison
>>
>
>