reading legacy floppy disks

[James Knott]

phiscock-g851W1bGYuGnS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org 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.
> 
> Zbigniew Stachniak (zbigniew-syTJIgLXA8osA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org) at York University has an
> extensive collection of legacy hardware and software as the basis for a
> small computer museum. So he might have something that is functional.
> 
> Peter
> 
> (Speaking of computer museums, I recall back in the early 80's a visiting
> high-school student remarked that the equipment in the Ryerson CS
> department would make a fine museum, and that they should simply change
> the label on the lab door. This story had wide currency, and suddenly
> there was a massive upgrade of the computer labs.)

That would have been around the time I attended.  They were just getting
rid of the card punch equipment and soon brought in some microcomputers
(Apple II and Zenith Z89).  Of course there was still the problem of
finding an available IBM terminal, that wasn't broken.  ;-)

Incidentally, I used to work with some 8" floppy drives, on Data General
Eclipse and DEC VAX 11/780 systems.


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