William Donzelli wrote: > I have just started to fool around with a 4331-2 (and 3830), and the > IPL floppy is just plain tired. Not the drive, but the floppy media > itself! But then, what can one expect from a 30 year old disk. > > Anyway, is there anyone out in IBM land that can write a 23FD 8 inch > floppy anymore? It is an odd format (the original, actually) of 80K or > so, and the drives are almost always read only - including mine. I > know there were some independent resellers and such that modified the > drives for writing. Does anyone know of any? <snip> OK ... Here is a real long shot ... I expect that I will be jumped all over (But what the heck - live dangerously) as to why this is not possible ... How about picking up an old Radio Shack TRS-80 on E-bay to do the copying (TRS-80 used 8-inch drives). . The only reason I mention this is because many decades ago there was an 'urban legend' that someone had, in fact, taken an IPL floppy drive and put it into a TRS-80 and modified the microcode and managed to cause havoc for the IBM CE's.
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