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A nice haul...

Hi,

Great hall, I'm sure you will make sure these machines are well looked after.

commodorejohn said:
Well, I talked with the previous owner again this morning, and he says the Vector's floppy drive is hard-sectored. He doesn't think he has any floppies for it, either, so if there isn't some kind of monitor hidden in the ROM that I can use to load something over the serial port, I'm gonna have to track down a replacement set of disks somewhere or other...
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Andrew Lynch is the goto person for Vectors:

http://compgroups.net/comp.os.cpm/anyone-have-any-old-vector-graphic-disks/946524

http://n8vem-sbc.pbworks.com/w/page/4200908/FrontPage

Regards,
John
PS I have a box of unused 3M branded 16 hard-sector 96TPI 5.25" disks for sale (in UK).
 
Yeah, I've actually got someone who mailed me a disk with XMODEM on it, but unfortunately it got pinched in transit and won't rotate in the sleeve. I need to get him to send me another...
 
commodorejohn said:
Yeah, I've actually got someone who mailed me a disk with XMODEM on it, but unfortunately it got pinched in transit and won't rotate in the sleeve. I need to get him to send me another...
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Cut the cookie out of the sleeve (carefully cut along one edge) and put it in a sleeve that isn't pinched. Then make an image ASAP.
 
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