Date   : Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:35:17 +0100
From   : "Ford, Dave (BAT)" <d.ford@...>
Subject: FW: Transferring BBC floppies to PC

> I received the following email recently - can we cover what is and isn't
> possible in terms of getting BBC discs transferred to a PC for this chap
> (he is subscribed to this list)?
> 
> <waves> - hello, yes I am - and I'm still having no luck.  I've tried
> using FDC on a variety of machines (and floppy drives, including a Cumana
> BBC drive attached to a PC's fd controller) - but to no avail. The BBC
> drive always timesout, whilst I get even-numbered cluster errors when I
> read any BBC disk in a PC drive - even on a prehistoric XT clone we had
> buried in the storeroom.
> 
> Dave Ford
> Bath
>