On Monday, 7 September 2020 14:42:48 UTC+1, John Rumm wrote:
On 07/09/2020 11:45, tabbypurr wrote:
On Monday, 7 September 2020 11:35:46 UTC+1, Mike Clarke wrote:
On 06/09/2020 22:34, Grumps wrote:

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!

You might manage something with Kermit instead of laplink. This
provides transport-independent file-transfer software via serial
ports for a wide variety of hardware platforms.

A copy of MS-DOS Kermit on the Amstrad should be able to talk to
Kermit 95 running on Windows 10. Your challenge would be to find
some way of putting a downloaded copy of MS-DOS Kermit on to a
suitable floppy compatible with the Amstrad.

http://www.kermitproject.org/index.html
http://www.kermitproject.org/mskermit.html
http://www.kermitproject.org/k95.html

when I moved to pc years ago I found no software to read the file
format, and used a text extractor to get everything in plain text.
The source machine claimed to be able to convert its files to pc
format for export, but when time came to do so it turned out it
couldn't.

A PC1512 *is* a PC - very cheap and cost reduced in true Amstrad style -
but a PC none the less.

(not to be confused with the 8256 and 8512 Z80 CP/M based word
processors with their "odd" 3" disks, or the home computer CPC range of
machines)

I never played with the Amstrads. The CP/M Z80 I used had 2x 8" floppies to run a whole network.

I also remember being mightily impressed with a 70M HDD. Couldn't imagine ever filling all that space up. And later 10M networking - what possible use was such wild speed?


NT