Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!ima!cfisun!lakart!dg From: dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Subject: IBM reading CBM disks (was Re: Woodpeckers inside 1541 drives (was cbm disks to DOS)) Message-ID: <176@lakart.UUCP> Date: 8 Jul 88 19:38:46 GMT References: <19681@watmath.waterloo.edu> Organization: Lake - The systems people Lines: 38 From article <19681@watmath.waterloo.edu>, by kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Dykes): ] ] I just came to this newsgroup to ask the question ] "is there a program/driver whatever, or otherwise is it straighforward ] to read cbm disks on a dos machine" ] i see several articles (as far back as we expire) with a subject line ] implying i may find THEE ANSWER. ] but all they talk about is how to buzz disk heads. ] Was there an answer to THEE QUESTION? can DOS machines handle cbm disks? ] A friend wants to discard his cbm business setup (inventory) and go to ] a dos machine -- but he doesnt want to re-enter all the inventory data ] and so it would be nice to be able to "convert" the data. ] (as long as DOS can "read" the disks, we will figure something for any ] mangling the actual applications have done to the data) ] (actually, i havent seen his cbm machine, i HOPE it doesnt use those ] ancient million-inch wide floppies (8 inch?)) ] -ken ] -- ] - Ken Dykes, Software Development Group, U.of.Waterloo ] kgdykes@watmath.uucp kgdykes@water.bitnet ] kgdykes@waterloo.csnet The bottom line is that IBM CANNOT READ CBM disks. End of discussion. To the original poster: if you are interested I can email with the reasons, but I baulk at cluttering up the net with such a discussion. For successful conversion use the technique I am using to transfer the King James Bible from CBM format to CP/M: get a modem or RS232 interface, a terminal program such as Common Sense (for C64 - is the CBM stuff on a 64 or a PET or what?), and a terminal program on the IBM, and just Xmodem or Kermit the stuff over. I've been at it now for three evenings, and have got about 10% of the way through it (The entire Bible is about 5 Megs, so it is not a small task :-) -- dg@lakart.UUCP - David Goodenough +---+ | +-+-+ ....... !harvard!cca!lakart!dg +-+-+ | +---+