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John Cartmell
 
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Default Time capsule -- anyone ever done one?

In article ,
Andy Dingley wrote:
On 16 Oct 2005 11:29:18 GMT, (Huge) wrote:


I can read any of those formats with a couple of phone calls


Crumbs, that's impressive. I'd have thought you needed some kind of
hardware. )


It's all in the whistling 8-)


How about 3" floppies?


Hamster disks are still quite easy. The funny little Japanese palmtop
(can't remember who made it) was harder, but I think you could still
get them done. The drives had a standard interface, DOS filesystems
didn't vary much between platforms.


The 3" floppies I know used CP/M.

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