RE: 3174 disks

"Dave McGuire [email protected] [hercules-390]" <[email protected]> Sat, 29 Jun 2019 01:33:20 -0400

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On June 29, 2019 1:21:59 AM "'Dave Wade' [email protected] [hercules-390]" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> …. Agency will supply the software
>>
>> How will they do that?  Nobody has been able to image them, as far as I'm
>> aware. (I personally havent tried, though I really should)
>
> The software utilities disk will copy a floppy as an image. Its blank media that’s the problem.

  Are you certain?  I've never seen the ability to perform image copies in the 3174.

>>> but not the disks….
>>
>> They supplied them to us..
>
> Blank 2.4 disks?

  No, 1.2MB and 2.4MB disks containing various bits of 3174 firmware that we were looking for.

                  -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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