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On Thu, 8 Oct 2020, Joao Silva wrote:
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!
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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.
Yes! Please send them somewhere to be scanned and OCRed! Get in touch
with Al Kossow of the Computer History Museum in Sunnyvale CA. See
http://www.bitsavers.org/ and http://www.bitsavers.org/.
--
David Griffith
d...@661.org
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