Re: 5.25in floppies.

From	"John Williams (News)" <UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk>
Subject	Re: 5.25in floppies.
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.misc
Date	2012-09-04 18:50 +0200
Message-ID	<52ca04aea7UCEbin@tiscali.co.uk> (permalink)
References	<52ca03dd64daves@orpheusmail.co.uk>
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In article <52ca03dd64daves@orpheusmail.co.uk>,
   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.

I expect one would also need to know if single/double sided, 40/80 track
etcetera - IRC other different formats as well!

It's a bit like people not saying where they are!  People need to know what
hardware was used to write them!

John

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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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