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

[STeve Andre']

On Friday 12 May 2006 16:35, Clay Dowling wrote:
> 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

Ugh!  sigh...

Backup plan: hire a clairvoyant.

--STeve Andre'