[ale] Good Laptop for Linux these days

[Raj Wurttemberg]

There are a few vintage computer users in this group.  I can help with
floppies from:

Commodore 64
Apple ][
IBM 360k, 1.2MB
Amiga


Thanks,
/Raj Wurttemberg

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ale <ale-bounces at ale.org> On Behalf Of jon.maddog.hall--- via Ale
> Sent: Friday, August 4, 2023 10:03 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts <ale at ale.org>
> Cc: jon.maddog.hall at gmail.com <jonhall80 at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [ale] Good Laptop for Linux these days
> 
> The biggest thing, in my mind, would be to find a drive that would read
them
> and the interface to that drive.  Another issue is whether the floppies
were soft
> sectored or hard sectored.
> 
> There are services for transferring data off various types of media.
> 
> https://www.salvagedata.com/data-recovery-
> nh/?source=google&medium=gmb&campaign=nh&partnerid=ACC4515/
> 
> https://www.dataretrieval.com/locations/nh/manchester
> 
> You can find one hear you, or send your disks away.
> 
> They are kind of expensive, so you probably really want to have your data.
> 
> OR
> 
> You can find someone who has a working CP/M system that uses the same
> type of floppy (hard or soft sector) to try and get the data off by a
serial
> transfer using kermit or some other serial protocol.   At 19.2 Kbps it
does not
> take too long to get the files that fit on a 5.25" floppy disk.
> 
> You could reach out to Vintage Computer Club or go to a Vintage Computer
> Fair
> 
> Just some suggestions.
> 
> I happened to need the floppy disk drive to make some boot floppies once
> upon a time and it worked out sell for my friend who had some DOS disks.
I
> just mounted them as a DOS file system on Linux.
> 
> md
> 
> 
> > On 08/04/2023 7:51 PM EDT Steve Litt via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Jon "maddog" Hall via Ale said on Fri, 4 Aug 2023 14:27:11 -0400
> >
> > >>Now, is that an 8", 5.25" or 3.5" floppy reader? ;-P
> > >3.5" floppy
> > >
> > >I used it to recover some DOS files that an 84 YO friend had.   The
> > >files were to create needlepoint.   I also recovered some music that
> > >she had on the disks.
> >
> > You don't know how to recover 5.25 CPM formatted floppies, do you?
> >
> > SteveT
> >
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