On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 10:02:13 +0000 (UTC), Cursitor Doom
wrote:

On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 10:34:57 +0100, rick wrote:

I have a single 3.5" FD that was authored on a BBC compact.

It contains a few text files I would like to get off the disk .........
anybody have one of these pieces of history that still work?

I don't think it's the hardware you need to worry about; it's more
whether your floppy has retained data integrity since it was written.

I threw out my BBC collection some years back. The floppy is probably
unreadable, but if you have a linux computer, you could probably find
a means of getting the text from the disk.

DOS had a "dump" command or similar, that may be a way of dragging the
data off. I suspect it may be a little intolerant of none DOS
partitions though.


AB