Ohhh Ahhhh, Stephen, are you hinting that with an actual drive I could recreate my own TPPD 1 disk? That would be cool. I am just about to do a belt replacement on one who's belt turned into black goo - When I removed the belt it literally went everywhere - and then the cleanup of the workshop bench was spectacular. Alcohol worked a treat :-)
While there are beautiful solid state versions of the TPPD now, but the concept of a drive that clicks and whirs is very appealing to me, Just like the 8" drives in my PDP11. Kindest regards, Doug Jackson em: [email protected] ph: 0414 986878 Check out my awesome clocks at www.dougswordclocks.com Follow my amateur radio adventures at vk1zdj.net ----------------------------------------------------------- Just like an old fashioned letter, this email and any files transmitted with it should probably be treated as confidential and intended solely for your own use. Please note that any interesting spelling is usually my own and may have been caused by fat thumbs on a tiny tiny keyboard. Should any part of this message prove to be useful in the event of the imminent Zombie Apocalypse then the sender bears no personal, legal, or moral responsibility for any outcome resulting from its usage unless the result of said usage is the unlikely defeat of the Zombie Hordes in which case the sender takes full credit without any theoretical or actual legal liability. :-) Be nice to your parents. Go outside and do something awesome - Draw, paint, walk, setup a radio station, go fishing or sailing - just do something that makes you happy. ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G- In more laid back days this line would literally sing ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G ^G On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 10:08 AM Stephen Adolph <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe that it is just not possible to use PC hardware ... drive, > controller... to read a TPDD disk. > > The disk is encoded with FM whereas a normal drive is MFM. Or maybe that > is backwards. > > Not sure but possibly a Catweasel drive can be used. But that is > specialized. > > Perhaps though a real TPDD drive connected to the pc is good enough? I > think there is software for that . > > > > On Tuesday, July 14, 2020, RETRO Innovations <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Is there really no way to read the 3.5" disks in a PC (even an older one, >> via DOS, with a discrete FDC IC)? I'd like to backup my TPDD disks, but my >> M100 is set up for the DVI right now, and I'd prefer to not redo all of >> that. >> >> Jim >> >> >> -- >> RETRO Innovations, Contemporary Gear for Classic Systems >> www.go4retro.com >> store.go4retro.com >> >>
