On Fri, 11 Mar 2022 at 22:38, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
>
> I could do it, but I'm a little squeezed for time and energy right now.
>
> Spending my mornings under the LINAC.
Oh no. :-( Very sorry to hear that. I hope it's worth it and it works!
(So far they've got 'em all early, but had anot
On 3/11/22 19:57, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> There was a time about 30 years ago, . . .
> a couple different companies took tiny single boards, such as Ampro
> Little Board, stuck them in a box with a floppy drive, and custom
> software that included communication through serial port, and mark
There are no 5.25" USB floppies. Well, not 100% true (there are values
in the identifier strings that tell you it's a 1.2MB floppy vs a 1.44MB
floppy), but as a practical matter, you can't find them. I've looked and
gave up... That's how I wound up with my kyroflux + TEAC drive (though a
greasewea
On Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 8:34 PM Fred Cisin wrote:
> I got more details from the guy with the disks. They are apparently
> "360K" PC floppies with XYWRITE files, and he wants to load the file
> contents into a "modern"? word processor. So hopefully, somebody can
> help him, wit
I got more details from the guy with the disks. They are apparently
"360K" PC floppies with XYWRITE files, and he wants to load the file
contents into a "modern"? word processor. So hopefully, somebody can
help him, with a simple COPY *.*, and I think that he now understands
that he might als
On Fri, Mar 11, 2022, 8:04 PM Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
> On 3/11/22 18:32, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
>
> > There are no 5.25" USB floppies. Well, not 100% true (there are
> > values in the identifier strings that tell you it's a 1.2MB floppy vs
> > a 1.44MB floppy), but as a practical ma
On 3/11/22 18:04, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
> It was mentioned that he would pay someone to do this. Why not just
> tell him to buy a $20 USB Floppy from Amazon and copy them himself?
If he wants, he can send them to me. After all, it's just a few
keystrokes for me. However, I don't d
On 3/11/22 18:32, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
> There are no 5.25" USB floppies. Well, not 100% true (there are
> values in the identifier strings that tell you it's a 1.2MB floppy vs
> a 1.44MB floppy), but as a practical matter, you can't find them.
> I've looked and gave up... That's how I wo
On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 7:25 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk
wrote:
> >> I got more details from the guy with the disks. They are apparently
> >> "360K" PC floppies with XYWRITE files, and he wants to load the file
> >> contents into a "modern"? word processor. So hopefully, somebody can
> help
> >> h
I got more details from the guy with the disks. They are apparently
"360K" PC floppies with XYWRITE files, and he wants to load the file
contents into a "modern"? word processor. So hopefully, somebody can help
him, with a simple COPY *.*, and I think that he now understands that he
might als
On 3/11/22 20:39, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
On Fri, 11 Mar 2022, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
I could do it, but I'm a little squeezed for time and energy right now.
Spending my mornings under the LINAC.
Yikes!
The word "under" means that you are not doing atomic physics experiments.
Very
On Fri, 11 Mar 2022, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
I could do it, but I'm a little squeezed for time and energy right now.
Spending my mornings under the LINAC.
Yikes!
The word "under" means that you are not doing atomic physics experiments.
Very sorry to hear it.
I got more details from the
I could do it, but I'm a little squeezed for time and energy right now.
Spending my mornings under the LINAC.
--Chuck
On Fri, 11 Mar 2022, Terry Cox-Joseph via cctalk wrote:
Dear Classic Computers Members,I am looking for someone who had an
operating floppy disk drive that can read old 5-1/4" floppy disks from
the 1980s.I may also need someone to read hard, 3" floppies. The disks
can be mailed and the info can
Terry,
If you're willing to travel to Kennett Square, PA we have a diskette
archiving station set up for use here. Contact me privately if interested.
Bill Degnan
CONTACT---> https://www.kennettclassic.com/contact.cfm
On Fri, Mar 11, 2022 at 12:41 PM Terry Cox-Joseph via cctalk <
cctalk@classic
I use a greaseweazle to read and format DEC RX01/RX02 8" diskettes. It
supports all sizes and formats.
https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle
https://decromancer.ooo/greaseweazle/
https://retrocmp.de/hardware/greaseweazle/greaseweazle.htm
https://www.tindie.com/search/?q=greastweazle
On 3/11/20
Dear Classic Computers Members,I am looking for someone who had an operating
floppy disk drive that can read old 5-1/4" floppy disks from the 1980s.I may
also need someone to read hard, 3" floppies. The disks can be mailed and the
info can be saved as text and sent via email or to the Cloud.I wo
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