At 09:43 AM 10/01/2019 +0100, you wrote: >On Thu, 10 Jan 2019, Guy Dunphy wrote: >> * Also I have some old HP equipment that uses HP-format floppies. LIF?
>Now that is as easy as it can be. There's lif_utils from Tony Duell >(http://www.hpcc.org/datafile/hpil/lif_utils.html), or the HP LIF >Utilities (http://www.hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?sw=56) for MS-DOS, of >even the LIF tools in HP-UX (e.g. lifls, lifcp). >But those 3½" HP floppies can be read on any standard PC with 3½" floppy >drive, they are in standard MFM format (with some special feature to mark >bad tracks, they put $FF in the sector headers and continue with the next >track). I've written a tool to read/write/format a diskette in 9122C >format to exchange data with our HP1000. > >Christian Thanks!
