Any sense of what PC models / controllers are capable of this task?
On Mon, 17 Aug 2015, Chris Osborn wrote:
Anything that will run ImageDisk or Teledisk will work. It doesn’t
necessarily have to be one of those computers, you could pull the 360k
drives from one of them and hook them into a “newer” PC that still
has 5.25” 360k floppy support. There’s usually 360k floppy support
on motherboards up to the Pentium III era.
There are plenty of PCs that can run ImageDisk and/or Teledisk that CAN
NOT do single density (FM). Neither of those pieces of software alter the
hardware capabilities of the machine.
I personally use an old ABIT KT7A-RAID board which has a controller
which is capable of writing single-density/FM disks. I’ve got a
half-height 5.25” 360k drive in it connected as drive B and a 3.5”
1.44M as drive A. I’ve used it quite often to create disks from my
original TRS-80 Model I which can only do SSSD. I’ve also used it to
make disks for the Kaypro and even make disks for my HP-150 which uses
single-sided 3.5” disks.
It is good that YOUR machine has FM/single-density capability.
And, yes, if your machine can do TRS-80 Model 1, then it can do Osborne
single density - those two machine use almost the same physical format
(except for D.A.M. issues on TRS-80). The first day that I saw an
Osborne, I looked at sectors on those disks using Superzap (Model 1
Newdos), and Trakcess.
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