reading legacy floppy disks

[James Knott]

Dave Mason wrote:
> I have a bunch of 7" (yes, 7-inch) double-sided, high density (something
> over 1MB per disk) floppies that I want to try to read.  I really just
> want a dump onto a CD.  I can decode the format (UCSD P-System) and extract the
> data.  These were probably last used 20 years ago, but have been stored
> fairly carefully.  I don't have much of a budget for this, but I would
> really like to read them, if possible.
> 
> Any ideas, offers, or recommendations much appreciated!

I believe you mean 8 inch floppies.  You'd have to find someone with an
8 inch floppy drive and a system that can understand the format use.
Also, are they hard or soft sectored?  Hard sectored disks have several
holes around the hub and soft sectored only one.  They are not compatible.

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