[softwarelist] Re: SparkFS Manual
- From: Dave Symes <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2017 18:56:45 +0000 (GMT)
In article <52018697-cdd4-77c8-8383-991766fa24b9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
David Pilling <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
On 04/02/2017 06:12, Dave Symes wrote:
I wonder just how many of you RISC OS users with Raspberry thingies are
reading floppies? ;-)
I have this hazy memory of someone (perhaps Richard Murray) mentioning
that someone else was working on a USB floppy project.
That would be the way, if you could get a USB floppy drive to read the
raw ones and zeroes on the disc (and not the PC format sectors).
Is there anything on floppy worth reading - I have BBC cassette tapes,
5.25" floppies, Amstrad 3" floppies, 3.5" floppies, Syquest discs,
Iomega zip discs, assorted format CD/DVDs. To a good approximation
everything worth having is on my current hard disc (or can be found on
the internet).
We have quite a bit of Computer Concepts additional stuff, like extra
frame borders, and somewhere there's a paid for floppy with some extra Imp
Publisher Loaders... SWMBO is the Publisher user here so I'm not that
interested, I moved to OvPro when it was released by the lot who were
originally BeeBug... Never can remember what they changed into. (RISC
Developments, maybe?) and I'd never go back to Publisher... I us OvPro for
all manner of document things on both RISC OS and Windows, including
probably things it was never intended for. ;-) But it's such a versatile
document processor... If only it could output in a few other formats to
save the nagging of my Win using associates...
I know we have a box full of floppy disc with all sorts of stuff on, but
it's getting around to finding time to look at them let alone copy off to
a Stick. :-/
Dave
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