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There will be a full writeup on this system later on, but the diskette that contained this letter of resignation was part of what remained of the author's 8" di
by systems_glitch 5y ago
There will be a full writeup on this system later on, but the diskette that contained this letter of resignation was part of what remained of the author's 8" diskette library, and contained a lot of 8080/Z80 code he'd written. He's deceased now, the fellow who passed the system on to me never knew him either, but digging through that much of someone's code and notes (a banker's box of documentation), I at least sort of feel like I end up in the programmer's shoes a bit.
Unfortunately, it seems this machine had a fault in its floppy drive controller some time in late 1985 or early 1986 (files stopped being updated). The fault caused any writes at all to disk to clobber whatever was under the write heads. So, this is about the end of the information I've got w.r.t. personal correspondence, etc.
- neurostimulant 5y agoSomeone posted this[0] recently about recovering old data from damaged floppies using oscilloscope. [0] https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2021/05/recovering-lost-treasure-filled-floppy.html https://scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com/2021/05/recovering-l...