[clug] 5 1/4" SS/DD floppies

Jim Croft jim.croft at gmail.com
Sun Oct 24 19:40:03 MDT 2010


I have a couple of old CP/M TRS-80s under the house being kept to
impress the heck out of grandkids. They used to work but have not
fired a bit in anger for more than two decades...  A colleague I think
has an Osborne for the same purpose...

Jim

On Monday, October 25, 2010, Mike Carden <mike.carden at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I have a box of five and a quarter inch single sided / double density floppies probably written with a Kaypro II in the middle to late eighties.  I would very much like to extract the files if it's at all possible.  Does anyone know who would have the equipment to do this?
>
> I do know that Dave Pearson at the National Library has been
> collecting old hardware for just this sort of exercise, but whether he
> has functioning gear for those particular floppies, I have no idea.
>
> There are commercial providers of data recovery services in Sydney and
> Melbourne but their fees are usually rather frightening.
>
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