Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy fetish search

2020-10-08 Thread dmccunney
On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 3:30 PM Eric Auer wrote: > > > Yes! Please send them somewhere to be scanned and OCRed! Get in touch > > with Al Kossow of the Computer History Museum in Sunnyvale CA. See > > http://www.bitsavers.org/ and http://www.bitsavers.org/. > > Nah I do not want to get in

Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy fetish search

2020-10-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! >> Why destroy the manuals? >> >> You can give them to some Institution for preservation, they are a >> piece of >> computer history or you can frame them and put on the wall of your >> office. > Yes!  Please send them somewhere to be scanned and OCRed!  Get in touch > with Al Kossow of the

Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy fetish search

2020-10-08 Thread David Griffith
My reply is at the bottom. Please put your reply there too. On Thu, 8 Oct 2020, Joao Silva wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 1:10 PM E. Auer wrote: Hi everybody, > I don't need the actual floppies - but I'd love to have a photo of > them. Interesting thought :-)

Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy fetish search

2020-10-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi Joao, As Microsoft software has been sold with the vast majority of all computers ever sold, I expect enough of the dozens of millions of German MS DOS 4.01 and Windows 3.1 manuals to be available as historical documents so the world could get by without mine, but if anybody wants them, tell

Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy fetish search

2020-10-08 Thread Joao Silva
Hello! Why destroy the manuals? You can give them to some Institution for preservation, they are a piece of computer history or you can frame them and put on the wall of your office. On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 1:10 PM E. Auer wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > > I don't need the actual floppies - but

[Freedos-user] new mpxplay media player version for dos

2020-10-08 Thread Eric Auer
Hi! Found this news from Laaca in the BTTR forum. Thanks Laaca :-) "Probably almost are users of this forum are already aware about it however - Attila Padar released a new version of his MXPlayer. Mpxplay v1.65 (all console versions) is released on http://mpxplay.sourceforge.net diffs

Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy fetish search

2020-10-08 Thread Harald Arnesen
E. Auer [08.10.2020 13:48]: > Harald, thank you for your offer to extract data from my CP/M floppies! > > Going through the link list from Rugxulo, I found out that both cpmtools > and 22DISK offer dozens of possible formats, but to my surprise, none > of them seemed to work?? However, *AnaDisk*

Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy fetish search

2020-10-08 Thread TK Chia
Hello Eric, In addition, I have found a small number of floppy disks in CP/M format, which are very likely readable using some of the drives here, but I do not know HOW to read them, software wise. I cannot even use dd to make a diskimage, probably different sector sizes? In case it helps: I

Re: [Freedos-user] Floppy fetish search

2020-10-08 Thread E. Auer
Hi everybody, I don't need the actual floppies - but I'd love to have a photo of them. Interesting thought :-) Might take a moment, but good idea. I also like the hard blue plastic boxes in which Inmac sold the floppies. In the meantime, my offer has grown by 20 small 3.5 inch diskettes,

[Freedos-user] Floppy nostalgia: Drivparm and driver (and fastopen)

2020-10-08 Thread E. Auer
Hi everybody, as mentioned, I plan to get rid of the old MS DOS 4.01 handbooks, but before, I have copied the pages about drivparm and driver sys. Apparently, the config sys command and device driver simply serve to override (or provide) the drive type and geometry data which you would