From: "ckeck@texoma.net" <ckeck@texoma.net>
To: Jonathan Gevaryahu <jgevaryahu@hotmail.com>
Cc: "tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org" <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Floppy to modern files for Usenet maps
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 06:21:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4843FA5B-4468-41FC-B89A-93D552D62E1B@texoma.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DM6PR04MB41698C9B0850DF34738D0D77C7E30@DM6PR04MB4169.namprd04.prod.outlook.com>
Kermit used to exist for a great many systems, including DOS. A Pi might get that installed via apt-get, or compiled from scratch (might have to do that soon for some other project). As far as connectivity goes, places like Frys sell USB-RS232 Adapters and null-modem cables, means one can avoid messing with the Pi’s IO bits.
Alternatively you could try uucp, but that requires more configuration.
Von meinem iPhone gesendet
> Am 24.06.2019 um 22:54 schrieb Jonathan Gevaryahu <jgevaryahu@hotmail.com>:
>
> I'd use something like imagedisk or teledisk or anadisk for reading the
> diskette; this will also preserve the deleted/unused sectors, the boot
> sector and the disk filesystem/metadata, while just copying the files
> off will lose most of this data.
>
>> On 6/23/2019 7:10 PM, Mary Ann Horton Gmail wrote:
>> Hunting around through my ancient stuff today, I ran across a 5.25"
>> floppy drive labeled as having old Usenet maps. These may have
>> historical interest.
>>
>> First off, I don't recognize the handwriting on the disk. It's not
>> mine. Does anyone recognize it? (pic attached)
>>
>> I dug out my AT&T 6300 (XT clone) from the garage and booted it up.
>> The floppy reads just fine. It has files with .MAP extension, which
>> are ASCII Usenet maps from 1980 to 1984, and some .BBM files which are
>> ASCII Usenet backbone maps up to 1987.
>>
>> There is also a file whose extension is .GRF from 1983 which claims to
>> be a graphical Usenet map. Does anyone have any idea what GRF is or
>> what this map might be? I recall Brian Reid having a plotter-based
>> Usenet geographic map in 84 or 85.
>>
>> I'd like to copy these files off for posterity. They read on DOS just
>> fine. Is there a current best practice for copying off files? I would
>> have guessed I'd need a to use the serial port, but my old PC has DOS
>> 2.11 (not much serial copying software on it) and I don't have
>> anything live with a serial port anymore. And it might not help with
>> the GRF file.
>>
>> I took some photos of the screen with the earliest maps (the ones that
>> fit on one screen.) So it's an option to type things in, at least for
>> the early ASCII ones.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mary Ann
>>
>>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-25 12:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-23 23:10 Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-06-23 23:52 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-06-24 0:02 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-06-24 0:35 ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-06-24 0:53 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-06-24 0:56 ` Larry McVoy
2019-06-24 1:12 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-06-24 1:31 ` William Pechter
2019-06-24 1:51 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-06-24 1:40 ` Bakul Shah
2019-06-24 3:20 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-06-24 0:50 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-06-24 21:07 ` Michael Kjörling
2019-06-24 21:30 ` Steve Nickolas
2019-06-24 21:59 ` Gregg Levine
2019-06-23 23:57 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-06-24 0:40 ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-06-24 1:37 ` William Pechter
2019-06-24 3:17 ` Jason Stevens
2019-06-24 1:57 ` Steve Nickolas
2019-06-24 2:09 ` pechter
2019-06-24 0:03 ` Theodore Ts'o
2019-06-24 0:19 ` Seth Morabito
2019-06-24 0:33 ` Larry McVoy
2019-06-24 1:58 ` Steve Nickolas
2019-06-25 3:54 ` Jonathan Gevaryahu
2019-06-25 11:21 ` ckeck [this message]
2019-07-09 16:28 ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-07-09 16:53 ` KatolaZ
2019-07-09 17:12 ` Henry Bent
2019-07-09 17:25 ` Seth Morabito
2019-07-09 17:34 ` Henry Bent
2019-07-09 19:19 ` Henry Bent
2019-07-09 19:41 ` Richard Salz
2019-07-09 20:09 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-07-09 20:58 ` Henry Bent
2019-07-09 20:54 ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-07-09 21:30 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-07-09 21:35 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-07-09 21:37 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-07-09 21:46 ` Henry Bent
2019-07-09 22:02 ` Henry Bent
2019-07-09 23:23 ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-07-10 0:06 ` Dan Cross
2019-07-10 0:26 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-07-10 0:38 ` Dan Cross
2019-07-10 0:49 ` Larry McVoy
2019-07-10 0:57 ` Clem Cole
2019-07-10 1:26 ` [TUHS] V0 B Compiler Warren Toomey
2019-07-10 1:29 ` Clem Cole
2019-07-10 1:32 ` [TUHS] Plot 10 Sources Clem Cole
2019-07-10 2:51 ` Charles Anthony
2019-07-10 3:00 ` Charles Anthony
2019-07-10 3:01 ` Clem Cole
2019-07-10 12:51 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2019-07-10 14:34 ` Clem cole
2019-07-10 1:02 ` [TUHS] Floppy to modern files for Usenet maps Arthur Krewat
2019-07-10 1:19 ` Larry McVoy
2019-07-10 1:34 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-07-10 0:28 ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-07-09 22:01 ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-07-09 22:44 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-07-09 23:14 ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-07-10 0:24 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2019-07-10 1:13 ` Mary Ann Horton Gmail
2019-07-09 17:33 ` Clem Cole
2019-07-15 3:21 ` [TUHS] Historical " Mary Ann Horton Gmail
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