Interest in a DiscFerret?

Guy Dunphy guykd at optusnet.com.au
Thu Jan 10 09:27:52 CST 2019


At 09:07 AM 10/01/2019 -0400, you wrote:
>One problem you may encounter reading LIF format diskettes on a PC using 
>these tools is many LIF diskettes are formatted 256 bytes/sector and 
>there is lots of PC diskette controller out there that cannot deal with 
>that including all USB diskette drives I am aware of.  I use a Panasonic 
>CF-45 laptop that has a built in diskette drive.  HP's LIFUTIL can be 
>set up to use HPIB storage such as 9122s via a HPIB adapter card.
>
>Paul.


Cool, another possible. Ironically I have a 9121 and a 9123, not a 9122.
Now to work out whether the difference is significant.
Hopefully not... 

And then, find a suitable HPIB card. I bet none of the ones I have are.

Guy


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