[TUHS] Floppy to modern files for Usenet maps
Mary Ann Horton Gmail
mah at mhorton.net
Mon Jun 24 10:35:52 AEST 2019
These are great ideas. I can easily get USB-to-serial (and even
USB-to-parallel) cables online that will fit the PC/XT compatible DB-25
plugs on the back of the PC. I'll have to figure out how to fiddle with
the baud rates and such.
I solved the GRF file puzzle. It turns out it's a text file - a Usenet
article. And the same article is in the Google archive.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/group$3Anet.news.map$20philabs!dal/net.news.map/lhqyD7MOFe8/v0CQFMZyGboJ
There is a cutoff notice at the end, both on the Usenet article and on
the floppy file, but that may be intentional. I'll have some fiddling
to do.
Mary Ann
On 6/23/19 5:02 PM, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
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