On 06/09/2020 22:48, No Name wrote:
On 06/09/2020 22:34, Grumps wrote:
Hi
So I have a really old Amstrad PC1512 with 20MB HDD. There are files
that I'd like to retrieve into a more modern environment - Win10.
The old PC has a 5 1/4" floppy, a serial port, and a parallel port.
The old PC also has Laplink v3.00a.

Is there anything that'll run on a Win10 PC that is compatible with
Laplink? Laplink themselves just told me (online chat) that the older
machine has to be Win7 or later. So DOS3.30 is out of the question then!
Ta.

Do you know if the hard disc drive is a RLL or a MFM or IDE interface?

The original 1512 came with a Xebec 20MB MFM drive and a proprietary
controller card. It made a strange "whoop whoop" noise when the head was
stepping between tracks.

Many 1512 were bought with only twin floppies and a hard card was the
popular upgrade option. This was a normally a Western Digital WD1003 and
a 20MB MFM 3.5in drive on a frame that was full length. Later versions
were 32MB RLL. When 40MB discs were available typically you had 2x 20MB
dirves, C: and D:

Then the floodgates opened and disc capacity increased exponentially.

The hard disc controllers had a few jumpers that set the capacity. If
you had a bigger disc than the controller understood you used have a
2-3MB partition that contained DOS and soft disc controller program
that would allow bigger disks. I used one with a Newbury Data 60Mb Penny
drive on a 1512.