How do I recover files from CPM format?
March 15, 2004 10:01 PM Subscribe
Is there a way to recover files from CPM? [more inside]
On a friend's behalf:
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Hi all,
Here's a tech question. I have the urge to rescue some of my older [files] from where they are languishing on diskette....
The diskettes are all 5 1/4". No problem. When I got my latest and fastest computer a few months ago, I spent $20 bucks and had a 5 1/4" drive put in. (I kept thinking about all my friends with all their old diskettes with all their irretrievable files and figured I could do a favor for a few people.)
The files are all in WordStar. No problem. I still have an old computer that has Word Perfect for DOS, which can still translate WordStar.
The Problem: The operating system for the computer I used at the time was CPM, the predecessor to DOS. A DOS based machine can't read these disks. At all.
I have no idea how to overcome that problem. Any tech wizards out there?
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On a friend's behalf:
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Hi all,
Here's a tech question. I have the urge to rescue some of my older [files] from where they are languishing on diskette....
The diskettes are all 5 1/4". No problem. When I got my latest and fastest computer a few months ago, I spent $20 bucks and had a 5 1/4" drive put in. (I kept thinking about all my friends with all their old diskettes with all their irretrievable files and figured I could do a favor for a few people.)
The files are all in WordStar. No problem. I still have an old computer that has Word Perfect for DOS, which can still translate WordStar.
The Problem: The operating system for the computer I used at the time was CPM, the predecessor to DOS. A DOS based machine can't read these disks. At all.
I have no idea how to overcome that problem. Any tech wizards out there?
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As a matter of idle nosiness - what kind of files are written back then are worth saving? I can't find a computer to run my Challenger C2 PC Basic games on, even if I could get them from cassette into my PC..
posted by Pericles at 5:18 AM on March 16, 2004
posted by Pericles at 5:18 AM on March 16, 2004
Response by poster: I think these were short stories.
posted by casarkos at 6:35 AM on March 16, 2004
posted by casarkos at 6:35 AM on March 16, 2004
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posted by majick at 10:18 PM on March 15, 2004