[ale] Converting 5.25" floppies to other mediums....

[Calvin Harrigan]

If it's a standard 5.25 inch diskette, I think that you can use dd to
make images that you can then later burn onto cd.  Something like

user at linux $ dd  if=/dev/fdx of=nameofdisk.img

Calvin...

On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 17:55, John Mills wrote:
> John -
> 
> On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, John Wells wrote:
> 
> > I have approx. 500 5.25" Commodore 64 floppies which I'd love to get moved
> > to 3.5" floppies or cds (so I can use them with an emulator).  Anyone know
> > of somewhere I can pay to have this done?
> 
> I can't say anything about Commodore formats, but I would check if Sydex
> has anything that could read them. You might have to drop back to DOS
> 8-) to run it, though.
> 
> One lead would be to float the question on <comp.os.cpm> and see what
> people say. If Commodore used an encoding not readable by a PC controller
> you might be out of luck, but again you might be in luck.
> 
>  - John Mills
> 
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