I have one of these drives, but no disk for it. I was able to do the PC
hack to make it work, but I'd rather have the disk. Is there anyone in
Canada that could make one for me for a small fee?
On 2020-07-14 7:32 p.m., Doug Jackson wrote:
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.
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On Wed, Jul 15, 2020 at 10:08 AM Stephen Adolph <[email protected]
<mailto:[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
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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
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