Tony in response to your original idea of wanting to download images for use on you existing machines ( did i get that right?), i think you have everything you need already. Download the images to your win 8 box then use file transfer software (kermit or xmodem) to serially transfer to the specific box you want to use the software on and the use the floppy on that box to write the floppies. It seems like there is a version of kermit made for every box imaginable. The only possible gotcha is does the box have a serial port.
Sent from my iPhone > On May 16, 2023, at 15:06, Ethan Dicks via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > On Tue, May 16, 2023 at 4:05 PM Dennis Boone via cctalk > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >>> At the most recent CoCoFEST!, I brought home the old Glenside Club >>> Computer Hard Drive. The mechanism is an ST-251... > < >> The best way to approach this, given the interchange issues with MFM >> disk controllers, is probably to use one of Dave Gesswein's MFM Emulator >> devices. It'll give you a flux image that can then be decode. > > I have an MDM Emulator and it's nice, on those occasions you are > trying to read a supported drive (it supports a _lot_ of encodings, > but not every single platform). > > Two layers - fortunately in this case, the low-level format is known > (WD1002A-WX1) and that's good. I'd totally expect an MFM Emulator to > be able to pull bytes off the drive. I am not a CoCo person so I have > no idea what tools can be used to pull files from a raw pile of disk > blocks there. > > -ethan
