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    Kommentar till text 330 av Sam.Alexander (39.fidonet_classic)
Ärende: Re: Viewing data on old TRS-80 Color Computer floppies ..
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From: "P.G." <hillhopper@mfire.com>

Sam.Alexander@harborwebs.com wrote:

>   Re: Viewing data on old TRS-80 Color Computer floppies ..
>   By: Bob Ackley to Sam Alexander on Thu Jun 01 2006 07:07 am
>
>  > Replying to a message of Sam Alexander to All:
>  >
>  >  SA> Hello all,
>  >
>  >  SA> I still have stacks of floppies (5.25") from my days of
> hacking around  >  SA> on  the Tandy Color Computer 2 and 3, and I
> was wondering if there's  >  SA> an app for  Linux that'll read these
> old floppies.  Just curious ..   >
>  >  SA> Sam
>  >
>  > The problem might be hooking up a 5.25" drive to a Linux box.
> AFAIK, if  > the disks are DOS (FAT) format Linux can read them,
> there are several  > commands that start with the letter 'm' that
> handle DOS formatted floppies.   >
>
> Hi Bob...
>
> I already have a 5.25" floppy drive connected to my Linux box, and
> thus far it's working great for all my old MS-DOS formatted disks
> (most from MS-DOS 3.3 or 5.0), but no luck reading disks written with
> the old TRS-80.  I used to have a program iirc that would boot from
> floppy and let me read the disks and store the data on either another
> floppy or a HD, but that's been MANY years ago.  I was hopeing
> someone would've written such a program for LInux that would mount or
> read TRS-80 disks with ease, but alas I've yet to find any such
> program out there.
>
> Thanks for the reply though :)
>
> Sam
>
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You might try a search for an emulator or emulator software.  I used to run
C-64 and other Commodore products before the flood of PC's.  Since then, C-64
emulators and software are still being archived for use on PC's (maybe even
Macs).  Good luck.  Some of the old stuff is still hard to beat.

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