Comment Reading old floppy disks. (Score 1) 323
Even if you had 3.5" floppies, there were hundreds of formats, your best chances with anything are with finding the original machine capable of reading the disks.
A few years ago, I had about 500 3.5" floppy disks, that were not only from an HP 9845 computer from 1976, were created using a 3rd party 'storage rom' on a disk/harddrive combo unit not originally designed for the HP 9845. (Looked like it came from the HP Apollo series unix machines.)
I went so far as to track down the original author of the storage rom. He couldn't tell me much except that there were hundreds of different 3.5" formats from the era. He wished me luck, and mailed me an original manual for his rom that he had kicking around. ;)
In then end, I got an old HP 9845 machine, made it use the printer for the console, since the display was fried... bought this product called HT Basic for windows with an IEEE-488 card, and I wrote basic programs on either end, to send the data over to the PC.
Good luck buddy, you're going to need it.
A few years ago, I had about 500 3.5" floppy disks, that were not only from an HP 9845 computer from 1976, were created using a 3rd party 'storage rom' on a disk/harddrive combo unit not originally designed for the HP 9845. (Looked like it came from the HP Apollo series unix machines.)
I went so far as to track down the original author of the storage rom. He couldn't tell me much except that there were hundreds of different 3.5" formats from the era. He wished me luck, and mailed me an original manual for his rom that he had kicking around.
In then end, I got an old HP 9845 machine, made it use the printer for the console, since the display was fried... bought this product called HT Basic for windows with an IEEE-488 card, and I wrote basic programs on either end, to send the data over to the PC.
Good luck buddy, you're going to need it.
