Re: File recovery help needed (Alabama)

2017-06-22 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 06/22/2017 09:48 PM, Mike Loewen via cctalk wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jun 2017, Sam O'nella wrote: > >> The assumptions pouring in could use a quick follow up. Date joke >> aside, did they already try reading them? My guess would be yes >> hence the recovery request possibly needing flux or more

Re: File recovery help needed (Alabama)

2017-06-22 Thread Mike Loewen via cctalk
On Thu, 22 Jun 2017, Sam O'nella wrote: The assumptions pouring in could use a quick follow up. Date joke aside, did they already try reading them? My guess would be yes hence the recovery request possibly needing flux or more advanced recovery. The gentleman with the disks does not have

Re: File recovery help needed (Alabama)

2017-06-22 Thread Sam O'nella via cctalk
The assumptions pouring in could use a quick follow up. Date joke aside, did they already try reading them? My guess would be yes hence the recovery request possibly needing flux or more advanced recovery. null

Re: File recovery help needed (Alabama)

2017-06-22 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 06/22/2017 07:18 PM, Fred Cisin wrote: >>> I was contacted by a faculty member at the University of Alabama >>> (Tuscaloosa) who is looking for help in recovering files from >>> some 5-1/4" diskettes. The diskettes are from the 1989-1892 time >>> frame... > > That was all before my time, so

Re: File recovery help needed (Alabama)

2017-06-22 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
I was contacted by a faculty member at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) who is looking for help in recovering files from some 5-1/4" diskettes. The diskettes are from the 1989-1892 time frame... On Thu, 22 Jun 2017, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: An eyewitness account of the Second

Re: File recovery help needed (Alabama)

2017-06-22 Thread Geoff Oltmans via cctalk
I'm in Huntsville Alabama but that's not exactly next door to Tuscaloosa. I'd be surprised if there wasn't someone in Tuscaloosa with the capability to read these disks, but I could probably help if they can't find anyone closer. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 22, 2017, at 8:26 PM, Fred Cisin via

Re: File recovery help needed (Alabama)

2017-06-22 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 06/22/2017 01:27 PM, Mike Loewen via cctalk wrote: > > I was contacted by a faculty member at the University of Alabama > (Tuscaloosa) who is looking for help in recovering files from some > 5-1/4" diskettes. The diskettes are from the 1989-1892 time frame... An eyewitness account of the

Re: File recovery help needed (Alabama)

2017-06-22 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 06/22/2017 01:27 PM, Mike Loewen via cctalk wrote: > > I was contacted by a faculty member at the University of Alabama > (Tuscaloosa) who is looking for help in recovering files from some > 5-1/4" diskettes. The diskettes are from the 1989-1892 time frame... An eyewitness account of the

Re: File recovery help needed (Alabama)

2017-06-22 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
CORRECTION: OpenOffice claims to READ WP files, but not SAVE to those formats. On Thu, 22 Jun 2017, Mike Loewen via cctalk wrote: Guys, let's not let this degenerate into a disk tool debate. It's quite likely that these are vanilla 1.2MB MSDOS diskettes, easily read by anyone with a system

Re: File recovery help needed (Alabama)

2017-06-22 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
Which brings it all down to: "How do you read 5.25" MS-DOS disks?" On Thu, 22 Jun 2017, Warner Losh wrote: kryoflux is how I've read the ones that I've found... In the unlikely event that they happen to be Victor 9000/Sirius, then send them to Warner. -- Grumpy Ol' Fred

RE: File recovery help needed (Alabama)

2017-06-22 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Mike Loewen via cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2017 7:12 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: File recovery help needed (Alabama) On Thu,

RE: File recovery help needed (Alabama)

2017-06-22 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Warner Losh via cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2017 7:04 PM To: Fred Cisin; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: File recovery help needed

RE: File recovery help needed (Alabama)

2017-06-22 Thread Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
From: cctalk [cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] on behalf of Fred Cisin via cctalk [cctalk@classiccmp.org] Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2017 5:39 PM To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts Subject: Re: File recovery help needed (Alabama)

Re: File recovery help needed (Alabama)

2017-06-22 Thread Mike Loewen via cctalk
On Thu, 22 Jun 2017, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote: On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: CORRECTION: OpenOffice claims to READ WP files, but not SAVE to those formats. Which brings it all down to: "How do you read 5.25" MS-DOS disks?"

Re: File recovery help needed (Alabama)

2017-06-22 Thread Warner Losh via cctalk
On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 3:39 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > CORRECTION: > OpenOffice claims to READ WP files, but not SAVE to those formats. > > > Which brings it all down to: > "How do you read 5.25" MS-DOS disks?" > kryoflux is how I've read the ones that I've

Re: File recovery help needed (Alabama)

2017-06-22 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
CORRECTION: OpenOffice claims to READ WP files, but not SAVE to those formats. Which brings it all down to: "How do you read 5.25" MS-DOS disks?"

Re: File recovery help needed (Alabama)

2017-06-22 Thread Fred Cisin via cctalk
On Thu, 22 Jun 2017, Mike Loewen via cctalk wrote: I was contacted by a faculty member at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) who is looking for help in recovering files from some 5-1/4" diskettes. The diskettes are from the 1989-1892 time frame, and most likely contain WordPerfect

File recovery help needed (Alabama)

2017-06-22 Thread Mike Loewen via cctalk
I was contacted by a faculty member at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa) who is looking for help in recovering files from some 5-1/4" diskettes. The diskettes are from the 1989-1892 time frame, and most likely contain WordPerfect files. If there's anyone in the area who would be

QSIC Update

2017-06-22 Thread David Bridgham via cctalk
It's been a while since I've sent an update on the QSIC project and since work is currently on-hold while I'm in Alaska for my summer job, this is a good time. With the QBUS protocol pieces all working from the previous winter, last winter's work was to get some sort of storage medium working.

VT100 keycaps? "Z" wanted

2017-06-22 Thread Eric Smith via cctalk
My VT180 is missing the "Z" keycap. Does anyone happen to have VT100-series keycaps to spare? (Or an entire keyboard to sell?) Best regards, Eric

Re: Back To: Getting to NeXt Command prompt

2017-06-22 Thread Ian Finder via cctalk
Wow those threads make me cringe. Keyboard poachers are /really/ annoying. On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 6:19 PM, Chris Hanson via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > It’s command-backquote, not quote. The backquote key is in the upper left > of the numeric keypad. > > Sorry for linking to a