HP-85 Floppy Disk Images
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11-14-2014, 08:03 PM
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RE: HP-85 Floppy Disk Images
Thank you Paul and Dave for your responses. I looked at both websites last night and I'm interested in trying them out. I'm not looking for any specific software, I'm just trying to figure out, when I find software I want, how to translate it back to the 85A. I'm also aware that HP-86/87 software won't run on my HP-85. I also want to try the TESTFDC to see how the Vectra's controller does with this test.
I did try Teledisk versions 2.11 and 2.16 with both of them aborting the transfer to the 3.5" drive. Here's a little different approach. There are plenty of ISA HP-IB cards available on eBay. If I get one, then I can hook up the HP 92901 and 9121 floppy drives directly to the 486 Vectra PC. Is there a software solution to directly write the file images to the HP drives only using the Vectra? I do have an HP 82973A HPIL to ISA card so I can read and write DOS files to 9114B disk drives. What would be a nice development is an HP-IB to USB hardware solution similar to J-F's PIL-Box solution. Then you can directly emulate disk drives, printers, etc. for any HP product that uses HP-IB. Support will be a nightmare though. Thank you for your help, Gerry |
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HP-85 Floppy Disk Images - Gerry Schultz - 11-13-2014, 07:39 PM
RE: HP-85 Floppy Disk Images - Paul Berger (Canada) - 11-13-2014, 08:22 PM
RE: HP-85 Floppy Disk Images - Dave Frederickson - 11-13-2014, 09:00 PM
RE: HP-85 Floppy Disk Images - Gerry Schultz - 11-14-2014 08:03 PM
RE: HP-85 Floppy Disk Images - patrice - 11-14-2014, 09:58 PM
RE: HP-85 Floppy Disk Images - Dave Frederickson - 11-14-2014, 10:31 PM
RE: HP-85 Floppy Disk Images - Dave Frederickson - 11-15-2014, 01:20 AM
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