How to read Osborne 1 Floppies?

Mon May 24 11:14:45 CDT 2021

On 5/24/21 9:04 AM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
> A photographer I know contacted me last night asking about reading Osborne 1 floppies.  What does it take to read these?
> 
> The only Catweasel board I have is the old Zorro 2 board for the Amiga.  I do have 5.25” floppy drives.  Neither of us have an Osborne anymore (I think mine went to Jim Willing).
> 
> Zane

22Disk running under DOS on PC should read them just fine on a legacy
floppy interface PC..   However if these are FM-encoded floppies (not
MFM), you'll need a controller that understands FM.

There are utilities for testing this capability, see: "TestFDC" here:

http://dunfield.classiccmp.org/img/

--Chuck