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Old 9th Nov 2018, 10:43 am   #5
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Default Re: Can anyone read the old CF2 discs ?

As I said the discs (2 off) are Amstrad, presumably the old Amstrad word processor.

To be clear, by "read" I mean read and copy data to any media that can subsequently be read by a modern Windows PC (fitted with floppies). So writing an IBM-style floppy or transmitting as RS232 data if necessary.

If the transcription process decodes the files then that's great, but we are systems programmers so decoding a filestore and a word processor format are no big deal.

Dave, I don't think we have a problem with CPM filestore so long as the disc data is readable on a modern machine, so could be mounted as a raw disc on a Linux system for example. Most of the difficulty these days is that Windows likes to make it hard to access hardware directly (we used to do weird stuff on old Windows systems, pre NT, creating discs for alien systems).

So if someone can confirm they can do this then please send me a pm.
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