[members at lugog] 8-inch floppy disks

[Andrew M.A. Cater]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2014 at 09:59:58PM +0100, Martin Wheeler wrote:
> Anyone got the slightest clue how I can now read a collection of 8"
> floppies I have from the late-70s/early-80s; formatted under TEC-DOS
> (a close relative of a 6809 DOS of the day) ?
> 
> Preferably on a network which will allow me to transfer the data on
> them over to a modern memory stick.
> 
> Or even know of somewhere there's a machine capable of reading them ?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> --
> Martin Wheeler - G5FM
> mwheeler at martinwheeler.co.uk
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Talk to the national museum of computing at Bletchley?

They're about the only people I can think of who may have 8" floppy drives
or the expertise.

I'm guessing they were recorded with high flux density so may still be readable
- recording tape from the 1960s is still readable for the same reasons.

Andrew