Re: 5.25in floppies.

From	Dave Stratford <daves@orpheusmail.co.uk>
Subject	Re: 5.25in floppies.
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Date	2012-09-05 13:43 +0100
Message-ID	<52ca71e10edaves@orpheusmail.co.uk> (permalink)
References	<52ca03dd64daves@orpheusmail.co.uk> <aamsjfFalkU1@mid.individual.net>
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In article <aamsjfFalkU1@mid.individual.net>,
   David Holden <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> wrote:

> On  4-Sep-2012, Dave Stratford <daves@orpheusmail.co.uk> wrote:

> > Does anyone here have the ability to read old (DFS format) 5.25in
> > floppy discs?
> >
> > If you do, I have found a large number of floppies with stuff on that
> > I'd quite like to retrieve, always assuming the discs are even
> > readable of course.

> That's a bit vague for a sensible answer.

> As someone else has already asked it would make life easier if we knew
> the format. What DFS (or DDFS) since many used their own multi-catalogue
> systems and the DDFS variants used a different number of sectors per
> track. They could even be ADFS.

Written using Acorn's own DFS from a model B.

> Also what would you want done with the content? Much of it would
> probably be useless on any other system.

True for assembler, but there are a number of basic progs, and an even
larger number of View and Wordwise documents. Just to be able to get at
the text would be very useful.

Most of it was written by me, so it's not copywrited or anything like that
(except by me!!!)

Dave

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Dave Stratford - ZFCB
http://daves.orpheusweb.co.uk/

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5.25in floppies. Dave Stratford <daves@orpheusmail.co.uk> - 2012-09-04 17:41 +0100
  Re: 5.25in floppies. "John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> - 2012-09-04 18:50 +0200
    Re: 5.25in floppies. Dave Stratford <daves@orpheusmail.co.uk> - 2012-09-05 13:39 +0100
  Re: 5.25in floppies. "David Holden" <SpamBin@apdl.co.uk> - 2012-09-04 17:37 +0000
    Re: 5.25in floppies. Dave Stratford <daves@orpheusmail.co.uk> - 2012-09-05 13:43 +0100
  Re: 5.25in floppies. Bryan Hogan <spam@nowhere.invalid> - 2012-09-05 01:06 +0100
  Re: 5.25in floppies. jgh@arcade.demon.co.uk - 2012-09-06 11:57 -0700
  Re: 5.25in floppies. Dylan Smith <dyls@alioth.net> - 2012-09-10 15:43 +0000

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