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

[Dan DeSloover]

Just curious. Can you post an attachment of the disk dump of the thing to the list?

--- eduardo <eduardo at cesconetto.com> wrote:

> can't read the disk..
> tried Win, mac and linux, no luck
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Benjamin Cathey" <benjamincathey at catheycompany.com>
> To: "Eduardo Cesconetto" <eduardo at cesconetto.com>
> Cc: <linux-user at egr.msu.edu>
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2006 11:55 AM
> Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Old Panasonic Word Processor FDD -- can it be read?
> 
> 
> Were you able to get this working?
> 
> 
> Benjamin Cathey
> System Administrator
> Cathey Company
> 4917 Tranter St.
> Lansing, MI 48910 USA
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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Eduardo Cesconetto
> [mailto:eduardo at cesconetto.com]
> To: Linux User
> [mailto:linux-user at egr.msu.edu]
> Sent: Fri, 12 May 2006 14:46:41
> -0400
> Subject: [GLLUG] Old Panasonic Word Processor FDD -- can it be read?
> 
> 
> >->> Hi gang, quick question:
> >->>
> >->> - Do you guys remember those Panasonic "Word Processors", like a
> >->> typewriter in steroids? Well, like every good mother-in-law, mine
> >->> arrived from Brazil with a "VERY IMPORTANT DOCUMENT" in one of them
> >->> FDDs, and since I'm the family geek, it's now my dutty to read the God
> >->> damned thing.
> >->> I was looking around on the net fomr something to read the disk with,
> >->> but with no success. The format of the disk is not recognized by 
> >Windows
> >->> or Mac, and I have no clue on how to try to read this cr*p under Linux.
> >->> Anybody?
> >->> Thanks.
> >->> Eduardo
> >->>
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Thanks,
Dan DeSloover
Penguicon 4.0 LUG-Wrangler(and MonroeLUG co-conspirator)
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