On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 12:52 PM, Guy Sotomayor via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I now have a number of uCode diskettes for my IBM 4331. I would somehow > like to image them so: > a) I have backups in case the floppies themselves go bad > b) be able to investigate their contents in case I have to “merge” the > contents of multiple floppies to > make a single good one > > These are all 8” diskettes. > > The complicating factors in all of this are: > a) any text (e.g. strings) are going to be in EBCDIC rather than ASCII > b) each uCode diskette was presumably serialized to the CPU it was for > c) not sure what the “on-disk” structure looks like > d) the only 8” diskette drives that I have are in IBM (non-PC) equipment > > Any ideas/comments would be welcome. > I love the imaging capabilities of kryoflux (http://www.kyroflux.com/). You'd have to remove the 8" floppy from the IBM and connect it to the kyroflux to do the imaging. Warner
