5.25 inch. floppy disks pda 2015 - archive
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5.25 inch. Floppy Disks
PDA 2015
Peter Chan Digital Archivist
April, 2015
Filesystem
• A filesystem is the methods and data structures that an operating system uses to keep track of files on a disk or partition; that is, the way the files are organized on the disk. - http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/filesystems.html
• A drive formatted by a Mac cannot be read
using a PC.
Apple II
Atari 810
CPM
IBM PC DOS
Unknown with Hints
Unknown
iTE iT8720
FTK Imager
Command Line FTK for Mac
FC5025
Kyroflux
Kyroflux
• Read at lowest level possible - precisely
sampling the magnetic flux transition timing.
• Save as raw stream, or export to common sector formats supporting.