Date   : Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:28:55 +0000
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Re: Newsnight aired 2005/11/08

"David Hunt" <dm.hunt@...> wrote:
> "Digital history locked into dead computers..."
 
Hmmm. No, locked into dead media.
 
> Notably, a man called Syd Hislam wrote his autobiography on an 80s machine
 
Did I hear correctly that he'd written it on a C64? Serves him
right ;)
 
> Anyone heard of an 8.5" floppy!?! One of the presenters held up the disc by
 
Eight **and and half** inch? Sloppy research there.
 
Floppies are 8", 5.25", 3.5", 3", 2". 
 
> Perhaps old format data retrieval would be a useful income stream to a
> computer museum or a group of enthusiastic collectors...
 
I can do data transfer between 3", 3.5" and 5.25" disks, 40 or 80
track, FM or MFM encoded, up to High Density (1600K-ish per disk).
 
I can transfer between various file systems including DFS, ADFS,
HADFS, AmsDOS, AmsCPM, Spectrum, DOS, CPM, CPN...
 
I have a **very small** supply of 3" disks that I would rather not
let go of. I have hundreds of 5.25" SD/DD, 3.5" SS/DD and 3.5" HD
disks.
 
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