Re: Ressurecting Old Apple ][ disks

[philip@labtam.labtam.oz.au (Philip Stephens)]

Rob writes:

>some of the bits on my disks (10 years old, some of them) have evaporated.
>Is there any copy program out there (I have heard Locksmith 6.0 might be able
>to do this) that might be able to salvage some of my disks?

  Yes, Locksmith 6.0 had a function to recover lost disks--it looked for
copies of the data inbetween tracks (since the read/write head was "too big"
to write reliably to all 80 tracks of a disk, hence the 40 track limit on the
old 5.25" drives).  It was reasonably effective at recovering lost data, and
I used to use it a lot :-)

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