[ale] Reading old XDF formatted floppies
Michael B. Trausch
mbt at zest.trausch.us
Fri Oct 9 13:49:59 EDT 2009
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 08:07 -0400, Keith Miller wrote:
> takes an IDE port, 40 or 80 pin cable aught to do it. BIOS needs to
> support it if I recall (could be wrong on that one). I've got older
> machines too, so perhaps a rig could be thrown together quickly.
Lo and behold, I found a working internal floppy drive! Thanks for the
offers of hardware loans, but I was able to copy the images I needed
finally. I just needed something that would attach to an FDC.
--- Mike
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