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What I want to know is how I can get all my old term papers off these floppies I used in the DEC Rainbow PCs in the computer center.
by fencepost 9y ago
What I want to know is how I can get all my old term papers off these floppies I used in the DEC Rainbow PCs in the computer center.
- gumby 9y agoThey can probably be read by any CP/M or DOS system (depending on which mode you used it in). Though this article says "don't bother."
- fencepost 9y agoIt was actually meant as a joke, the Rainbow used odd disks (SSQD) and a somewhat unique drive. I'm sure extracting the data would be possible but likely much more awkward than in the posted article.
- mjevans 9y agoFind some hardware that can /physically/ read the disks, then find some version of Linux that runs on it and some way of connecting it to a network. Failing that, get an older POSIX compatible OS of some sort and cross-compile any tools you need.