If it is readable as text, it probably isn't wps-8. At least the 5-1/4" formar was encoded into 12 bit words, and weren't directly readable.
On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Tom Morris <tfmor...@gmail.com> wrote: > In addition to everything mentioned by everyone else, you might want to > take into account the type of "report" that you saw. If it's more a > document type report than a line printer listing report, you might have a > diskette from a DEC WPS-8 word processing system. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPS-8 > > Tom > > On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 4:10 PM, Walker Sampson < > walker.samp...@colorado.edu> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> >> >> Let me preface this by saying that I’m unfamiliar with the original PDP >> machines. I work as a digital archivist and have received 8” floppy disks >> from which I need to recover data. >> >> >> >> I believe I have recovered at least partial data from these disks; I’ve >> connected a Y-E Data 8” floppy drive to a KryoFlux floppy disk controller >> and gotten positive sector results setting the format to a DEC RX02 sector >> image. When I investigate the resulting disk image in a hex editor, I am >> seeing clearly a report document, so I don’t believe I have a false >> positive. >> >> >> >> Outside of observing in a hex editor however, I don’t know how to access >> the disk or its contents. Using SIMH, I haven’t gotten the virtual machine >> to boot the floppy disk image. >> >> >> >> Commands “AT RK01 <disk_image>” and then “BOOT RK01” give me a “HALT >> instruction, PC: 000002 (HALT)” message for the PDP-11 program. The PDP-8 >> stalls indefinitely and the PDP-10 outputs “Non-existent device” as well. >> >> >> >> I can’t go back to the donors and ask what machines these 8” floppies >> were used with, so I’m not sure how to begin troubleshooting. >> >> >> >> Any advice in that area is much appreciated! >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> >> Walker >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Simh mailing list >> Simh@trailing-edge.com >> http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh >
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