[ale] Good Laptop for Linux these days - CP/M floppies

[Raj Wurttemberg]

I totally forgot... I do have a Visual 1050 system that can read CP/M disks,
and I'm pretty sure that my Commodore 128 can read CP/M disks with its
attached 1571 drive.

/Raj W.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> On Behalf Of Raj Wurttemberg via Ale
> Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2023 12:03 PM
> To: 'Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts' <ale at ale.org>
> Cc: Raj Wurttemberg <rajaw at c64.us>; 'jon.maddog.hall at gmail.com'
> <jonhall80 at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [ale] Good Laptop for Linux these days
> 
> There are a few vintage computer users in this group.  I can help with
> floppies from:
> 
> Commodore 64
> Apple ][
> IBM 360k, 1.2MB
> Amiga
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> /Raj Wurttemberg
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> On Behalf Of jon.maddog.hall--- via Ale
> > Sent: Friday, August 4, 2023 10:03 PM
> > To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> > Cc: jon.maddog.hall at gmail.com <jonhall80 at comcast.net>
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Good Laptop for Linux these days
> >
> > The biggest thing, in my mind, would be to find a drive that would read
> them
> > and the interface to that drive.  Another issue is whether the floppies
> were soft
> > sectored or hard sectored.
> >
> > There are services for transferring data off various types of media.
> >
> > https://www.salvagedata.com/data-recovery-
> > nh/?source=google&medium=gmb&campaign=nh&partnerid=ACC4515/
> >
> > https://www.dataretrieval.com/locations/nh/manchester
> >
> > You can find one hear you, or send your disks away.
> >
> > They are kind of expensive, so you probably really want to have your
data.
> >
> > OR
> >
> > You can find someone who has a working CP/M system that uses the same
> > type of floppy (hard or soft sector) to try and get the data off by a
> serial
> > transfer using kermit or some other serial protocol.   At 19.2 Kbps it
> does not
> > take too long to get the files that fit on a 5.25" floppy disk.
> >
> > You could reach out to Vintage Computer Club or go to a Vintage Computer
> > Fair
> >
> > Just some suggestions.
> >
> > I happened to need the floppy disk drive to make some boot floppies once
> > upon a time and it worked out sell for my friend who had some DOS disks.
> I
> > just mounted them as a DOS file system on Linux.
> >
> > md
> >
> >
> > > On 08/04/2023 7:51 PM EDT Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Jon "maddog" Hall via Ale said on Fri, 4 Aug 2023 14:27:11 -0400
> > >
> > > >>Now, is that an 8", 5.25" or 3.5" floppy reader? ;-P
> > > >3.5" floppy
> > > >
> > > >I used it to recover some DOS files that an 84 YO friend had.   The
> > > >files were to create needlepoint.   I also recovered some music that
> > > >she had on the disks.
> > >
> > > You don't know how to recover 5.25 CPM formatted floppies, do you?
> > >
> > > SteveT
> > >
> > > Steve Litt
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