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Re: Escaping Data Rot



Michael J. Mahon wrote:
Bill Garber, in another thread, reports that the recommended 5.25"
drive has a jumper to ignore the index hole, which, if it works,
would eliminate any problem reading the "back sides".

So, for my clarity's sake, that refers to the 5.25 PC/Teac drive and Apple formatted disk backsides, correct?

Failing that, you can either add another index hole sensor to the
drive, ORed with the first, or you can add a simple 555 pulse generator
to fake the drive into thinking it sees index pulses.

That's currently beyond my skill set, but I follow instructions well and am somewhat handy with mechanical thingees and a soldering iron if it comes to that.

 > Once the images are captured on a PC, CiderPress will make short
 > work of viewing and/or capturing all the text as PC .txt files.

Sounds great!

Thanks again!