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Archive Corp Model 2060E QIC-02
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made this video demonstrating my approach to belting, for someone else. y'all can see it too I guess, it's not a trade secret or...
Thursday at 12:00 AM
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Archive Corp Model 2060E QIC-02
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My experience has been that they stretch with age. My solution to them being too tight is to stretch them first. If it feels like you're...
Wednesday at 11:56 PM
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AS/400 tape extraction
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Also OS/400 uses structured files with variable blocksize. Dumping it with `dd` loses all the file structure (record/block sizes) which...
Nov 7, 2023
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DDS3 tape recovery project
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JVC made one too, very early on. I don't believe it was OEMed from anyone else, but I'm not positive. Here's one on eBay for a silly...
Oct 28, 2023
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DDS3 tape recovery project
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You need a tape device driver using the BSD semantics, which leaves the tape positioned where it is, on close. A subsequent read will...
Oct 25, 2023
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Hard Disk Confusion
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MinusZeroDegrees is correct. Google can kick rocks. The ESDI disks are 0667. IBM's 16-bit ISA ESDI controllers are for the RT.
Oct 24, 2023
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Micropolis 1325 - Address mismatch
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An update in this topic: I got the MFM emulator from David Gesswein, and with that I did a "magnetic" dump of the data on my disk. Not...
Oct 20, 2023
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Is there a list of which makes/models of hard drives were used in XT/ATs?
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drives I've personally collected/observed (with the exception of the ST412), with IBM part markings, in 5160s, 5161s, and 5170s...
Oct 4, 2023
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Is there a list of which makes/models of hard drives were used in XT/ATs?
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CMI CM6426. IBM WD12. IBM 0665-30. IBM 0665-38. IMI 5012H. Miniscribe 2012. Seagate ST225. Seagate ST412. Seagate ST4026. Seagate ST4038.
Oct 4, 2023
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1541 won't work on VIC20
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I thought there was some timing incompatibility between the VIC-20 and 1541, and this is why there is a VIC-1540? I probably don't...
Oct 1, 2023
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Anyone got a NeXT cube with a functioning MO drive?
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I'm sure the answer is "yes, and then they will no longer be readable in a NeXT". But I didn't try that because my objective was to...
Sep 7, 2023
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Anyone got a NeXT cube with a functioning MO drive?
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Can confirm Canon Diskfile 5001S will not read NeXT format cartridges. Because the NeXT OD interface is not "intelligent" it has the...
Sep 7, 2023
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Anyone got a NeXT cube with a functioning MO drive?
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Well, what they were thinking was, since they were still only selling into academic accounts, that you could show up with your MO cart...
Sep 6, 2023
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