On 1/10/19 7:05 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> But getting too cheap on this one-off sort of stuff gets silly after awhile.
But cctlk navel contemplation and bile generation is sooo much more fun than
producing anything USEFUL
On 1/10/2019 7:41 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 1/10/19 5:16 PM, Chris Pye via cctalk wrote:
There is a 13 sector version of ADTPro. All you need is a working
Apple II or IIe with a floppy drive and serial card (or ethernet
card). It can even bootstrap the Apple into 13 sector DOS 3.2
On 1/10/19 5:16 PM, Chris Pye via cctalk wrote:
> There is a 13 sector version of ADTPro. All you need is a working
> Apple II or IIe with a floppy drive and serial card (or ethernet
> card). It can even bootstrap the Apple into 13 sector DOS 3.2 mode
> and then you can read and transfer disk
On Fri, 11 Jan 2019, Chris Pye via cctalk wrote:
There is a 13 sector version of ADTPro. All you need is a working Apple II or
IIe with a floppy drive and serial card (or ethernet card).
It can even bootstrap the Apple into 13 sector DOS 3.2 mode and then you can
read and transfer disk images
> On 11 Jan 2019, at 10:33 am, Guy Dunphy via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> That's a very good point, thanks. Hadn't occured to me, but of course the
> vast majority of Apple IIs ever sold used the 16 sector format. So that was
> the target market.
> Since almost all my A2 disks are DOS 3.2 13 sector,
At 12:03 PM 10/01/2019 -0800, you wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Jan 2019, Guy Dunphy wrote:
>> All my Apple II disks are DOS 3.2. When 3.3 came out, it was a) too much
>> trouble
>> to convert everything up, and b) ... read that 'missing the wave' story.
>> It gave me a sour feeling about 3.3. Totally my
On Thu, 10 Jan 2019, Guy Dunphy wrote:
All my Apple II disks are DOS 3.2. When 3.3 came out, it was a) too much trouble
to convert everything up, and b) ... read that 'missing the wave' story.
It gave me a sour feeling about 3.3. Totally my own fault, but still.
If you get any of the existing
At 09:07 AM 10/01/2019 -0400, you wrote:
>One problem you may encounter reading LIF format diskettes on a PC using
>these tools is many LIF diskettes are formatted 256 bytes/sector and
>there is lots of PC diskette controller out there that cannot deal with
>that including all USB diskette
On Thu, 10 Jan 2019, Paul Berger wrote:
One problem you may encounter reading LIF format diskettes on a PC using
these tools is many LIF diskettes are formatted 256 bytes/sector and there is
lots of PC diskette controller out there that cannot deal with that including
*All* standard PC floppy
On 2019-01-10 4:43 a.m., Christian Corti via cctalk wrote:
On Thu, 10 Jan 2019, Guy Dunphy wrote:
* Also I have some old HP equipment that uses HP-format floppies.
LIF? They're not DOS compatible.
A HP 1630G logic analyzer with 9121 GPIB dual floppy drive, and a HP
8 data generator.
On Jan 9, 2019, at 12:12 PM, Al Kossow via cctech wrote:
> Universal joy through the reinvention of the wheel (badly)
Alan Kay called this "reinventing the flat tire", a turn of phrase I rather
fancy.
ok
bear.
--
until further notice
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
At 07:34 PM 9/01/2019 -0800, you wrote:
>On Thu, 10 Jan 2019, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote:
>> ...
>> What other all-formats floppy R/W and data recovery tools do people here
>> know of?
>> Comments of their functionality?
>
>A couple of questions to discuss. Believe it or not, they are not
On Thu, 10 Jan 2019, Guy Dunphy wrote:
* Also I have some old HP equipment that uses HP-format floppies. LIF?
They're not DOS compatible.
A HP 1630G logic analyzer with 9121 GPIB dual floppy drive, and a HP
8 data generator. For both machines I have old floppies containing
critical
AppleII have a look at AppleSauce to USB connect an Apple Disk][ to a Mac
to flux read the diskettes.
If you’re not Mac interested, maybe someone could do them for you. I would,
but I’m in Sydney , AU.
//m
On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 1:26 pm, Guy Dunphy via cctalk
wrote:
> At 03:39 PM 9/01/2019
On Thu, 10 Jan 2019, Guy Dunphy via cctalk wrote:
Has anyone used a DiscFerret, to actually extract files from say, Apple II disks
and HP LIF disks?
The website- https://discferret.com/wiki/DiscFerret
It seemms like the project is dead since 2013, was only ever for Linux, and
never included
> On 10 Jan 2019, at 12:26 pm, Guy Dunphy via cctalk
> wrote:
>
> * At the moment I'm attempting to restore my old, heavily modified Apple II
> to working condition,
> and then archive all my old Apple II files on floppies to PC. Part of a
> project to document a
> bunch of projects I
At 03:39 PM 9/01/2019 -0500, you wrote:
>
>I had the bug to do something similar.. then I found SuperCard Pro.
>It's closed hardware but the USB protocol is fully documented. Because
>if that, it's almost a perfect commodity turn-key hardware bridge to raw
>flux-level transitions - in or out.
On 1/9/19 2:06 PM, Fred Jan Kraan via cctalk wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Is there any interest in a DiscFerret in good working order?
>
> If so contact me off-list. I don't have a plan yet for the case interest
> is >1.
So, I accidentally replied to the list as well and it c
I had the bug to do something similar.. then I found SuperCard Pro.
It's closed hardware but the USB protocol is fully documented. Because
if that, it's almost a perfect commodity turn-key hardware bridge to raw
flux-level transitions - in or out. It's $100 and in-stock. One could
On 1/9/19 12:05 PM, Torfinn Ingolfsen via cctalk wrote:
> Less finished (ok, unfinished) project
Just what the world needs, more half-baked floppy reading hardware
and no software, just like the stupid thing on hackaday.
at 8:17 PM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
wrote:
>
> On 1/9/19 2:06 PM, Fred Jan Kraan via cctalk wrote:
> > Hi Everyone,
> >
> > Is there any interest in a DiscFerret in good working order?
> >
> > If so contact me off-list. I don't have a plan yet for the case inter
On 1/9/19 2:06 PM, Fred Jan Kraan via cctalk wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Is there any interest in a DiscFerret in good working order?
>
> If so contact me off-list. I don't have a plan yet for the case interest
> is >1.
>
What were you hoping to get for it? I hav
Hi Everyone,
Is there any interest in a DiscFerret in good working order?
If so contact me off-list. I don't have a plan yet for the case interest
is >1.
Fred Jan
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