24 Jun
2019
24 Jun
'19
6:02 a.m.
On 6/23/19 5:52 PM, Arthur Krewat wrote:
Does the AT&T have a serial port?
Kermit would be the way I'd go, but since you say you have nothing with
serial ports, that could be a problem. A cheap usb-to-serial port might
be in order. Then you can run Kermit 95 on a Windows 7 or earlier
machine. (might work on later OS's too, but it's not supported)
The flip side is how to get Kermit onto the DOS machine.
Does Kermit have an option like INTERLNK & INTERSVR have where you can
run a "copy COM1 INTERxxx.EXE" to push the software across the serial port?
I wonder what the requirements are for INTERLNK & INTERSVR. I don't
know if they would go back to (MS-)DOS 2.11 or not.
I used a floppy recovery service a while back to read
my old Commodore
64/PET disks - he was relatively inexpensive, and very responsive.
http://retrofloppy.com/
If the machine is able to read the files without error, then a recovery
service might not be necessary. IMHO it's a question of getting one or
more copies onto something else so that the existing floppy isn't the
only copy.
--
Grant. . . .
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