In article <4F2156DE.8090
...@astro.uni-bonn.de>,
Uwe Nass <un
...@astro.uni-bonn.de> writes:
> Tom Burnett wrote:
>> I have come into possession of several original Lobo Max-80 8" boot
>> disks. They are both single and double sided and are both CP/M 2.2
>> and 3. Does anyone still have access to 8" disks and would be willing
>> to read them into disk images? It would not be necessary to send them
>> back to me. I'd like to write a Lobo Max-80 emulator (or, perhaps,
>> add one to Peter Schorn's wonderful emulator that already does several
>> machines/architectures), but there are no Lobo disk images on the
>> Internet that I am aware. Don Maslin offered them in the past.
>> Hopefully, there is BIOS source code on the disks. It sure would make
>> the task easier. I already have a high quality scanned manual
>> including the schematic.
>> Is anyone still with the hardware able to help? I haven't had an 8"
>> drive in over 20 years.
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Tom
> Hi Tom,
> I can still read 8" disks with some old DOS programs
> (22DISK and TELEDISK from SYDEX). Problem is: 1) are
> these disks still readable and 2) you have to ship them
> to Germany.
> Greetings,
I suspect there will be a n mber of people who can still read 8"
disks. I guess the next thing I would ask for is for whoever
becomes the victim^H^H^H^H^H^Hvolunteer to first just try to
make copies of them. I would certainly like to have a copy of
the originals, one way or the other just so I can test out some
of my stuff here that I haven't used in a long, long time.
bill
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