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[72.197.202.72]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id m8sm7646443pjs.22.2019.06.23.17.35.52 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 23 Jun 2019 17:35:52 -0700 (PDT) To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org References: From: Mary Ann Horton Gmail Message-ID: <92db46d5-d821-a792-7753-dfc5f2898cbf@mhorton.net> Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 17:35:52 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.7.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US Subject: Re: [TUHS] Floppy to modern files for Usenet maps X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" These are great ideas. I can easily get USB-to-serial (and even USB-to-parallel) cables online that will fit the PC/XT compatible DB-25 plugs on the back of the PC.  I'll have to figure out how to fiddle with the baud rates and such. I solved the GRF file puzzle.  It turns out it's a text file - a Usenet article. And the same article is in the Google archive. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!search/group$3Anet.news.map$20philabs!dal/net.news.map/lhqyD7MOFe8/v0CQFMZyGboJ There is a cutoff notice at the end, both on the Usenet article and on the floppy file, but that may be intentional.  I'll have some fiddling to do.     Mary Ann On 6/23/19 5:02 PM, Grant Taylor via TUHS wrote: > On 6/23/19 5:52 PM, Arthur Krewat wrote: >> Does the AT&T have a serial port? >> >> Kermit would be the way I'd go, but since you say you have nothing >> with serial ports, that could be a problem. A cheap usb-to-serial >> port might be in order. Then you can run Kermit 95 on a Windows 7 or >> earlier machine. (might work on later OS's too, but it's not supported) >> >> The flip side is how to get Kermit onto the DOS machine. > > Does Kermit have an option like INTERLNK & INTERSVR have where you can > run a "copy COM1 INTERxxx.EXE" to push the software across the serial > port? > > I wonder what the requirements are for INTERLNK & INTERSVR.  I don't > know if they would go back to (MS-)DOS 2.11 or not. > >> I used a floppy recovery service a while back to read my old >> Commodore 64/PET disks - he was relatively inexpensive, and very >> responsive. >> >> http://retrofloppy.com/ > > If the machine is able to read the files without error, then a > recovery service might not be necessary.  IMHO it's a question of > getting one or more copies onto something else so that the existing > floppy isn't the only copy. > > >