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Pacific Northwest Wanted: Someone to read a batch of 8 Victor/Sirius floppies

Covers: Oregon and Washington

Chuck(G)

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Title says it all--just transfer the data to something that can be accessed. I could dig into my decoder software and rig something up, but it's not worth the effort for the small number of disks--and I'm tied up with other more urgent things. So if there is anyone in the US with a Victor/Sirius box running MSDOS in operating condition, please drop me a line. Thanks!
 
I just procured About 100 Victor 9000 disks. It is my understanding that those disks are physically different than the standard IBM PC format. Is this correct? Does anyone want them? It would also be nice if someone could put them in a format that MAME could read for the Victor 9000
 
Yes!
I'm interested in archiving them.
I believe there are 2 ways to read them - on a real Victor, or via ApplesauceFDC with a 1.2mb drive.
They are a unique format that has speed zones to fit much more data on a DSDD disk.
 
I don't need the ability--after a month a silence from the forum, I just coded it up myself. There's documentation on bitsavers on the format, but it's not exactly correct.

There's also a catweasel driver for linux that should work.
 
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