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

[Eduardo Cesconetto]

It's actually a MF2DD, I believe dual density 720Kb

Clay Dowling wrote:
> STeve Andre' said:
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>> 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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