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Re: 5.25in floppies.

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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.

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

-- 
David Holden  -  APDL  -  <http://www.apdl.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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