On 9/13/26 21:48, R Pickett wrote:
On 9/13/26 6:48 PM, Jason White wrote:
So a few days ago I found this on Archive.org:
https://archive.org/details/model-100-disks <https://archive.org/
details/model-100-disks>
Ah, and we come full circle. :)
Those are the floppies I was talking about in my "What to do with M100
floppies?" thread from a couple of weeks ago.
I have the existing physical floppies, but no TPDD of any flavor to read
them. I do, however, have a Greaseweazle, so the advice of the list was
to image them and set them somewhere, preferably including archive.org,
so someone with both a Greaseweazle and a TPDD could try them out.
And so here we are.
It's entirely possible the scp images are no good in some way, though
the part where you're getting partial success makes me not sure where to
look to figure out what might be wrong.
Long and short of it, though, is that I'd be delighted to postal-mail
these disks to someone with a TPDD (probably TPDD2, based on the titles
of a couple of the utility disks), and we could see what all is on
there. I just want to get maybe ZIP files containing the contents of
each disk for my archive of my Dad's stuff.
Any thoughts? And if we can get the data off the disks, the
complicated, bulky, and possibly corrupt scp version on archive.org
becomes sorta moot and could be updated to be instead the actual data.
Thanks in advance, all.
I can do it no problem and send them back so you still have the
originals of course. whichever it is tpdd1 or 2 I have both.
pdd.sh makes efficient tpdd images that just uses a real drive to both
read and write, and saves the data not a flux map. IE, a 100k disk is a
100k disk image.
It can both read the files as files, the same way say TS-DOS does, and
dump the whole raw disk, as in all bytes of all sectors, so you also get
whatever might be on the disk that isn't part of a file. Like deleted
files or intentionally hidden data or non-filesystem raw data disks. And
can use the resulting dump to re-create a new copy of the physical disk.
Then if the disks turn out to just be ordinary file disks with nothing
weird in the rest of the sectors, you can just keep the files and
discard the images safe in the knowledge that there is nothing lost
because we were able to actually look at all the raw sectors.
Then again a whole disk is only 100k or 200k so you could equally say
why bother keeping it or why bother deleting it.
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bkw
