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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