[TUHS] Floppy to modern files for Usenet maps
Grant Taylor
gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net
Mon Jun 24 10:02:28 AEST 2019
On 6/23/19 5:52 PM, Arthur Krewat wrote:
> Does the AT&T have a serial port?
>
> Kermit would be the way I'd go, but since you say you have nothing with
> serial ports, that could be a problem. A cheap usb-to-serial port might
> be in order. Then you can run Kermit 95 on a Windows 7 or earlier
> machine. (might work on later OS's too, but it's not supported)
>
> The flip side is how to get Kermit onto the DOS machine.
Does Kermit have an option like INTERLNK & INTERSVR have where you can
run a "copy COM1 INTERxxx.EXE" to push the software across the serial port?
I wonder what the requirements are for INTERLNK & INTERSVR. I don't
know if they would go back to (MS-)DOS 2.11 or not.
> I used a floppy recovery service a while back to read my old Commodore
> 64/PET disks - he was relatively inexpensive, and very responsive.
>
> http://retrofloppy.com/
If the machine is able to read the files without error, then a recovery
service might not be necessary. IMHO it's a question of getting one or
more copies onto something else so that the existing floppy isn't the
only copy.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
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