Interest in a DiscFerret?
Guy Dunphy
guykd at optusnet.com.au
Thu Jan 10 03:08:23 CST 2019
At 09:43 AM 10/01/2019 +0100, you wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Jan 2019, Guy Dunphy wrote:
>> * Also I have some old HP equipment that uses HP-format floppies. LIF?
>Now that is as easy as it can be. There's lif_utils from Tony Duell
>(http://www.hpcc.org/datafile/hpil/lif_utils.html), or the HP LIF
>Utilities (http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?sw=56) for MS-DOS, of
>even the LIF tools in HP-UX (e.g. lifls, lifcp).
>But those 3½" HP floppies can be read on any standard PC with 3½" floppy
>drive, they are in standard MFM format (with some special feature to mark
>bad tracks, they put $FF in the sector headers and continue with the next
>track). I've written a tool to read/write/format a diskette in 9122C
>format to exchange data with our HP1000.
>
>Christian
Thanks!
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