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

[Matthew Brown]

I learned spreadsheets on a CP/M computer!

Best Regards,

Matthew Brown
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> On Aug 14, 2023, at 10:53 PM, Raj Wurttemberg via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> 
> 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
>>>>> 
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