AppleII have a look at AppleSauce to USB connect an Apple Disk][ to a Mac to flux read the diskettes.
If you’re not Mac interested, maybe someone could do them for you. I would, but I’m in Sydney , AU. //m On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 1:26 pm, Guy Dunphy via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > At 03:39 PM 9/01/2019 -0500, you wrote: > > > >I had the bug to do something similar.. then I found SuperCard Pro. > >It's closed hardware but the USB protocol is fully documented. Because > >if that, it's almost a perfect commodity turn-key hardware bridge to raw > >flux-level transitions - in or out. It's $100 and in-stock. One could > >always build custom hardware, but you'd wind up with something very > >similar in hardware and protocol design. What's your time worth? > > > >The heavy lift is always in software. There is an open-source Amiga > >disk image utility package that has turned into something more > >flux-level generic called Keirf Utilities. And the built-in software is > >also descent. But since the USB protocol is documented, the hardware > >capabilities can be extended by anyone. > > > >-Alan > > > > > >On 2019-01-09 15:12, Al Kossow via cctalk wrote: > >> On 1/9/19 12:05 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen via cctalk wrote: > >>> Less finished (ok, unfinished) project > >> > >> Just what the world needs, more half-baked floppy reading hardware > >> and no software, just like the stupid thing on hackaday. > >> > >> > https://hackaday.com/2019/01/08/preserving-floppy-disks-via-logic-analyser/ > >> > >> Universal joy through the reinvention of the wheel (badly) > > > Has anyone used a DiscFerret, to actually extract files from say, Apple II > disks > and HP LIF disks? > > The website- https://discferret.com/wiki/DiscFerret > It seemms like the project is dead since 2013, was only ever for Linux, > and never included software > that understands various old floppy formats. Is that right? > > My neads (using DOS, WinXP or Win7) are: > > * At the moment I'm attempting to restore my old, heavily modified Apple > II to working condition, > and then archive all my old Apple II files on floppies to PC. Part of a > project to document a > bunch of projects I did in my 20s, 1970s t0 1980s. > The intro article is here: > http://everist.org/NobLog/20181001_missing_wave.htm > Another article is in progress, about the restoration and doco of all > the mods I did on my Apple II. > After it's working and old files extracted, then an article about my > hacking Apple DOS 3.2 to > get higher data density. The old thermal printer listings are faded to > illegibility, so I'm > really hoping the floppies are still readable. > > * Also I have some old HP equipment that uses HP-format floppies. LIF? > They're not DOS compatible. > A HP 1630G logic analyzer with 9121 GPIB dual floppy drive, and a HP > 80000 data generator. > For both machines I have old floppies containing critical utilities > (including a bunch of > disassembly utilities for early processors) that I really want to back > up on PC and put online. > > There's sentimental and historical interest with both, and practical need > with the HP gear. > > But, I have little experience with data recovery from old floppies. Long > ago I did have a PC ISA > bus card for extracting bit transition images from floppies, but I can't > find it. > Just now starting to look for what's available. Hoping for something that > just works, as I have > way too many projects already. > > I do have boxes of old drives, 8" 5.25" and 3.5", most densities. > > What other all-formats floppy R/W and data recovery tools do people here > know of? > Comments of their functionality? > > Guy > > > -- *Blog: RetroRetrospective – Fun today with yesterday's gear…….. <http://www.jongleur.co.uk/blogs/>* *Podcast*: *Retro Computing Roundtable <http://rcrpodcast.com/>* (Co-Host)