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 have Acorn computers with 3.5" drives that can most likely read
your disk (A5000, Master, DFS, ADFS, HADFS, DOSFS - a Compact is
likely to be ADFS). I could extract your data for postage. See my
website for my email address.

jgh - mdfs.net/portfolio