[GLLUG] Old Panasonic Word Processor FDD -- can it be read?

[Clay Dowling]

STeve Andre' said:

> I have the disgusting solution for you, which isn't great (actually, its
> disgusting) but it might work.
>
> Suck the floppy up onto your system.  In OpenBSD I'd do
>
>    dd if=/dev/rfd0c of=floppy bs=8k
>
> I'd then have a 1.44M file called floppy.  Now for the disgusting
> part:  run strings on it and pick out all the human readable
> stuff, like

STeve, I think that the disks aren't regular 1.44 or 720 format.  It's
worth a try, but I seem to recall that these disks are their own special
format and size.  The tracks are likely not going to line up properly.

Clay

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