On Jun 23, 2017, at 11:23 AM, Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>> with a Packard Bell w/' Win 95 (Not hooked to the internet) with a 5 1/4 >> drive in it! > > Surely the most prized artifact in any museum's collection! > >> On Fri, 23 Jun 2017, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote: >> And then what do you do with them? No network and most likely >> no USB. I suppose you could write them to 3.5" disks, which I am >> pretty sure he doesn't have either. :-) > > Let's hope that it's a 1.4M! If it's 720K, then we could sneaker it to a > PS/2 to move it to 2.8M, to take to a NeXT, . . . > > But if it's 1.4M 3.5" then it can be sneaker-net'd to a late model Mac. > It can be transferred by serial port to a Victor 9000/Sirius. > Warner can read that, and copy it to 8" SSSD (THE standard). > An Apple II with an SVA (Sorrento Valley Associates) disk unit can read that, > and copy it to an Amdek 3". > The 3" can go to a Coco or Amstrad and send it by modem to an AOL account. > FTP to a unix shell account. > TRS-80 can login and print it out. > The printout can be OCR'ed. > The OCR'ed content can be run through text to speech to a CD. > CD can be dubbed to a dictaphone. > A secretary can type from the dictaphone content. > Or, if available, the OCR'ed content can be run through a KGs-80 or Rochester > Dynatyper (keyboard actuator); the Escon unit, instead of sitting on top of > the keyboard was underneath a Selectric, so maybe it could be mounted to an > IBM operator console? > > Note that this procedure eliminates using punch cards, paper tape, hard > drives, flash drives, mag tape (and cartridges), stringy floppy, MO, core > planes, drums, and thousands of intermediate floppy formats (including hard > sector, 3.25"). > > > Some folk might come up with shortcuts that seem quicker, > but unless/until they do the transfer, . . . Silly me... And here I was thinking I could just use my dell dimension celeron machine running win98 complete with 5.25" floppy drive AND (drum roll) a 10/100 NIC and ftp over to my ftp server. But your idea sounds more thorough. :)
