A good place to start: http://www.classiccmp.org/dunfield/img/index.htm
m ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robo58" <[email protected]> To: "'General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts'" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 12:14 PM Subject: RE: Archiving CP/M 2.2 Source Code Programs to a PC (Fat or NTFS media) > Hi Bill, > > Thanks for the reply. Yes, I have an 8" Shugart 800/801 and one or two > 5.25". > > I'm a little rusty on the older PC's. So when you say that 386 to PIII's > could read an 8" floppy, would those PC's have SD floppy controllers? > > I did a quick look and the link for the Catweasel > (http://www.jschoenfeld.com/products/catweasel_e.htm) and the website no > longer operational. > > Assume that I can get an old PC and connect it up how would an "image a disk" > program work? Does it have knowledge of the CP/M files system and can read > the directory and grab the files? Would the program also be able to write to > the PC's file system to complete the archive? > > What "image a disk" programs would suggest? > > Thank you > Robo > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of william > degnan > Sent: Friday, January 15, 2016 10:40 AM > To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Archiving CP/M 2.2 Source Code Programs to a PC (Fat or NTFS > media) > > do you have a working 8" drive? You can attach to a PC from the 386 through > to Pentium III as a "HD 5 1/4" drive. That's what I do. You need the DBIT > 50/34 adapter and image an disk program. You can usually for CP/M disks just > use the motherboard's built-in disk drive controller, but I also have a > Catweasel if I need it for more exotic formats. CP/M disks are very > readable, any format I have ever encountered on SS disks has been no problem, > assuming the disk itself is ok. > > Here is a thread from my web site that describes the process, as I > accomplished it. There is more than one way to skin this cat, there is also > a link within the thread with a downloadable how-to guide from VCF East 9. > > http://vintagecomputer.net/browse_thread.cfm?id=561 > > Bill > > > >
