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> From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Sent: 03 July 2019 10:44
> To: Tony Harminc [email protected] [hercules-390] <hercules-
> [email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [hercules-390] 3174 disks
>
> On Tue, 2 Jul 2019, Tony Harminc [email protected] [hercules-390] wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 at 13:43, Giuseppe Vitillaro giuseppe-yuD/ahkh7LvrZ44/[email protected]
> wrote:
> >
> >> The best I remember is named EPLCOPY (version 4.20), still functional
> >> under FreeDOS (I used it last time under DOS 3.30 or 4.xx), file date
> >> 09-14-89.
> >>
> >> I vaguely remember it was widely used INSIDE IBM for copying a range
> >> of non standard floppy disk format.
> >
> > EPL = European Program Library? The European equivalent of the US PID
> > (= Program Information Department). Sounds like the kind of department
> > that could make good use of such a tool.
> >
> > Tony H.
> >
> Not sure I even had a fancy idea of the
> origin of the name ;-)
>
> Copies are available on the Net, for what I can see, ranging from 4.20 to
5.00
> versions:
>
> http://www.retrocomputacion.com/forum/aplicaciones-utilitarios-y-
> juegos/45082/eplcopy-version-5-00-y-4-21/
>
Not anymore. Those links are dead.
> I just remember it was widely used to copy non standard floppy disk format
> on a standard PC-PS/2 floppy controller, inside IBM of course, between
1985
> and 1990, under PCDOS/MSDOS (maybe even under OS/2).
>
> Not easy to use, though.
>
> But I had been able to use it to copy really weird floppies 5.25" and 3.5"
at its
> time.
>
> I bet it "requires" a controller which match the hardware it knows. Intel
> motherboard floppy controllers, still available, should match it (I've a
couple
> with 5.25" floppies connected still up&running).
>
> I should have the complete 4.20 version, stored with the manual
> somewhere, if it is still readable.
>
> I can't say if 3174 disks are in the set this tool can handle.
>
I don't think PC's ever supported 5.25" 2.4Mbyte floppies which is what the
3174 needs for the latest firmware.
I also don't think this was ever used in anger outside the 3174
environments, except perhaps for firmware disks.
My PC Server 500 supports 2.88 Mbyte 3.5" disks but I don't believe there is
any way to set a 2.4 drive...
None of the obvious solutions such as goteck or other floppy emulations
support 2.4 either
> Peppe.
>
[Dave.g4ugm]
Dave
>
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> Posted by: Giuseppe Vitillaro <giuseppe-yuD/ahkh7LvrZ44/[email protected]>
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