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========================================================================= Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 09:30:29 -0500
Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Peter da Silva <peter@SPARCY.ENG.BAILEYNM.COM>
Subject: Re: Floppy disk formats
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.980410120727.25487A-100000@merritt.edu>
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Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
In article <Pine.BSD/.3.91.980410120727.25487A-100000@merritt.edu> you write:
>Hard-sectored and GCR disks can not be read with the PC hardware, Even ordinary "single density" FM requires modification to most PC FDCs.
If you're trying to read a wide variety of floppies, keep an Apple-II and an Amiga around. Both of them did format decoding in software, and so can read or write any NRZ data stream and convert it into bits and bytes. The Apple, of course, will become your locksmith for 5.25" disks, and the Amiga for 3.5".
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Reply-To: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> Sender: "CYHIST Community Memory: Discussion list on the History of
Cyberspace" <CYHIST@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU> From: Peter da Silva <peter@SPARCY.ENG.BAILEYNM.COM>
Subject: Re: Floppy disk formats
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSD/.3.91.980410120727.25487A-100000@merritt.edu>
______________________________________________________________________
Community Memory: Discussion List on the History of Cyberspace ______________________________________________________________________
In article <Pine.BSD/.3.91.980410120727.25487A-100000@merritt.edu> you write:
>Hard-sectored and GCR disks can not be read with the PC hardware, Even ordinary "single density" FM requires modification to most PC FDCs.
If you're trying to read a wide variety of floppies, keep an Apple-II and an Amiga around. Both of them did format decoding in software, and so can read or write any NRZ data stream and convert it into bits and bytes. The Apple, of course, will become your locksmith for 5.25" disks, and the Amiga for 3.5".
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