reading legacy floppy disks

Robert Brockway rbrockway-wgAaPJgzrDxH4x6Dk/4f9A at public.gmane.org
Tue Sep 5 04:53:34 UTC 2006


On Mon, 4 Sep 2006, 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!
>
> Thanks  ../Dave
>
> (P.S. I know this is kinda off-topic, but I don't know of a
> more-knowledgeable Toronto group.)

I think Evan is spot on suggesting U-U (http://unixunanimous.org/).  Dave 
if you are not subscribed I'd be happy to forward your email - just say 
yay or nay.

Cheers,

Rob

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