Wanted: 5.25" 1.2M floppy drive

[Bill Bradford]

Anybody got one (preferrably a made-for-IBM) lying around that they'll sell
to me cheap?  I need to make some images from some old Lotus 1-2-3
floppies.

Bill

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[gsm-2]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 01:21:40AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
>Anybody got one (preferrably a made-for-IBM) lying around that they'll sell
>to me cheap?  I need to make some images from some old Lotus 1-2-3
>floppies.

I seem to remember that they were copy protected. Anyone know for sure?

Geoff.

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[Phil Stracchino-3]

gsm@... wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 01:21:40AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
>> Anybody got one (preferrably a made-for-IBM) lying around that they'll sell
>> to me cheap?  I need to make some images from some old Lotus 1-2-3
>> floppies.
>
> I seem to remember that they were copy protected. Anyone know for sure?

1-2-3 was copy protected, yes.  iirc, they put an intentional
bad-in-a-certain-pattern sector on the disk.  Total pain in the ass for
a university computer lab.  And they never did understand why people
ditched them for the competition as soon as there was viable competition...


That said, we have a 5.25" floppy we could probably spare.


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[Jonathan Patschke]

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Phil Stracchino wrote:

> 1-2-3 was copy protected, yes.  iirc, they put an intentional
> bad-in-a-certain-pattern sector on the disk.  Total pain in the ass for
> a university computer lab.  And they never did understand why people
> ditched them for the competition as soon as there was viable
> competition...

I seem to recall having good with with Copy II PC way back then.  I
probably still even have my backup copy of Lotus 1-2-3 2.4.

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[821]

is someone going to make a repository of all this wonderful stuff?
technically illegal, but what a treasure :)


On 30 Jun 2009, at 15:54, Jonathan Patschke wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>
>> 1-2-3 was copy protected, yes.  iirc, they put an intentional
>> bad-in-a-certain-pattern sector on the disk.  Total pain in the ass
>> for
>> a university computer lab.  And they never did understand why people
>> ditched them for the competition as soon as there was viable
>> competition...
>
> I seem to recall having good with with Copy II PC way back then.  I
> probably still even have my backup copy of Lotus 1-2-3 2.4.
>
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> tools
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[gsm-2]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 02:54:22AM -0500, Jonathan Patschke wrote:

> I seem to recall having good with with Copy II PC way back then.  I
> probably still even have my backup copy of Lotus 1-2-3 2.4.

I had a Copy II board for my PC, which would copy almost anything. I gave
it away when I left the 'states because it had been years since I had
seen a copy protected disk and no longer had a computer it would run on.

In retrospect, since that computer had 5 1/4 and 3.5" floppy drives, a 60 meg
QIC tape drive (that would read 10 and 30 meg tapes), the copy II board, an
EPROM burner and some other interesing things, I should have kept it.

I had no idea that 12 years later I would actually miss the darn thing. :-)

Back to Lotus, I seem to remember that with the CopyII PC package was a
program which bypassed the copy protection for some programs. I don't remember
the name of it, or if it worked with Lotus.

Geoff.

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[gsm-2]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 07:58:01AM +0000, 821 wrote:
>is someone going to make a repository of all this wonderful stuff?
>technically illegal, but what a treasure :)

Not me. I've done it for Mac stuff, and then found that someone had done
a much better job (3gig of 680x0 Mac programs) and put it out on BitTorrent.

Not that I trust all of it, I ran a virus scan on it, and found that a file
had been infected in 1994. Luckily antivirus programs are still available.

Geoff.
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[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 07:58:01AM +0000, 821 wrote:
> is someone going to make a repository of all this wonderful stuff?
> technically illegal, but what a treasure :)

vetusware.com

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