| Posted by Jesus Jones |
7/15/2004 3:27 PM | remove |
Oddly enough that looks like a 3.5" floppy drive.
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| Posted by INeedAttention.com |
7/15/2004 3:53 PM | remove |
Correct. 3.5" drives were around during the mid-80s, however, so this is consistent with most of the history of this house, suggesting this was purchased before Mrs. Salomon died.
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
7/16/2004 3:34 PM | remove |
If it's not a 3.5 it could be a 3" - they were around in the 80's and used by Brother, Epson and Sinclair / Amstrad / Timex.
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| Posted by INeedAttention.com |
7/16/2004 4:24 PM | remove |
Negative on that, there were other diskettes 3.5" around. Although you are also correct about the 3" drives.
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| Posted by DopeNess Monster |
7/16/2004 5:02 PM | remove |
Neat piece of equipment. I bet those disks could hold some clues, if they're still good.
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| Posted by INeedAttention.com |
7/16/2004 5:09 PM | remove |
That's a very excellent point, DopeNessMonster. I'll get back to you on that idea.
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| Posted by TurboZutek |
7/16/2004 5:17 PM | remove |
We once 'borrowed' the master 3.5" from the telephone exchange at Crookston Castle School - very interesting.
Full dialing directory and divert times for the phones. Made sense of some things we had wondered about.
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| Posted by metalwitch40 |
9/29/2004 10:04 PM | remove |
I remember that "computer server matrix" from the 1980s.
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| Posted by Kennerado |
10/16/2004 4:20 AM | remove |
No Yes stickers from sweepstakes letters?
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| Posted by gmcnewlook |
10/20/2004 6:25 AM | remove |
nice computer nonetheless, that could be worth someting to a computer collector given its age
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| Posted by juDy jEts0n |
2/10/2005 10:38 PM | remove |
If this guy was really nuts, I wonder if he may have kept a journal or something on that thing.
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| Posted by INeedAttention.com |
2/11/2005 1:42 AM | remove |
I checked some of the disks, actually, but most of them are unreadable. They're double density floppies, so they're probably quite old. There must be read errors all over it. I wonder if there is a way to just make a disc image, even though the computer can't seem to read the file system at all.
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| Posted by Oherian |
7/25/2005 1:27 PM | remove |
You ought to be able to make a sector-by-sector or even a bit-by-bit image. The Linux F.I.R.E. distribution at http://fire.dmzs.com/ may have some tools available for that.
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| Posted by Axle |
5/18/2006 6:13 PM | remove |
again...I want this computer
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| Posted by buckybear |
7/25/2006 10:54 PM | remove |
If it was a brother word processor it may not be compatble with a windows or dos pc. They saved in a weird format,
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