On 07/09/2020 13:12, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 07/09/2020 09:45, Andy Burns wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
But how do you get anything (kermit) ON to the PC 1512?
Ask nicely someone who's got a machine with a 5ΒΌ" floppy drive.
Who could then read thw 15i2 floppirs ANYWAY...?
On DOS Simtel archive the Sydex driver could read and write most 5.25"
floppy disk formats that use constant rotation speed. One of them even
had a table of settings for comman machines if memory serves.
I think it was ANADISK or maybe 22DSK (mostly for CPM disks).
http://cd.textfiles.com/simtel/simte...TL/.index.html
I have certainly used that software to customise drivers for getting
stuff off ancient CPM and Oliivetti word processors in the distant past.
I have no idea if they are still selling the paid for version...
RS232 interconnection is still probably the simplest way out.
(simplest way might be copy files to a none existent dumb RS232 printer
and capture the whole lot at the other end with a terminal emulator)
You lose the robustness of error correction this way but the modern PC
should be plenty fast enough to keep up.
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Regards,
Martin Brown