Hello! Why destroy the manuals?
You can give them to some Institution for preservation, they are a piece of computer history or you can frame them and put on the wall of your office. On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 1:10 PM E. Auer <e.a...@jpberlin.de> wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > I don't need the actual floppies - but I'd love to have a photo of > > them. > > Interesting thought :-) Might take a moment, but good idea. I also like > the hard blue plastic boxes in which Inmac sold the floppies. > > In the meantime, my offer has grown by 20 small 3.5 inch diskettes, as > well as various storage boxes for big and small diskettes. Actually one > can use those for 5.25 inch diskettes to organize CD or DVD, in case > some of you likes a bit of a retro touch :-) > > Also, I have another nostalgia problem: After making copies of a few > relevant pages, I think I should finally get rid of my German MS-DOS > 4.01 and Windows 3.1 handbooks. Any good ideas for ritual destruction? > Or is anybody still interested in that old stuff? ;-) > > Harald, thank you for your offer to extract data from my CP/M floppies! > > Going through the link list from Rugxulo, I found out that both cpmtools > and 22DISK offer dozens of possible formats, but to my surprise, none > of them seemed to work?? However, *AnaDisk* is able to check which types > and numbers of sectors exist on each track of a floppy and assuming that > using Win98 as host OS was acceptable, it manages to extract a confusing > pile of sectors from each of the CP/M floppies. I still have to figure > out whether there is sense in that data or whether I should rather seek > help from Harald and his special hardware. For now, I will pause > attempts > to extract the floppy contents more thoroughly until new ideas pop up or > until I find out that AnaDisk missed too much of the contents. > Apparently > the floppies were 40x8x1 or 40x8x2 with 512 bytes per sector, often with > some un-numbered sectors here and sectors with data errors there? While > almost all MS DOS formatted floppies still worked well - after 35 years! > > At the risk of only being able to read, but not reliably write or format > 360k disks in the future, I still plan to *throw away* my 360k drive and > keep only the 1200k drive (just in a drawer). Nobody seemed to want the > 360k drive or my second 1200k drive yet ;-) > > Cheers, Eric > > PS: I also still have the original MS-DOS 4.01 floppies, but prefer to > use the original MS-DOS 5.00 diskettes in 3.5 inch in case any need for > any MS-DOS should ever arise again in the future. And there is Win 3.1! > > > > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >
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