[Coco] Help retrieving Coco disk images

[Arthur Flexser]

Maybe worth checking the drive speed before buying a new drive?

Art

On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:43 PM, John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org>
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I was a Coco II (Disk Extended BASIC) user way back when.  I am
> currently trying to preserve what data I had on those disks.
>
> To do so, I have assembled a DOS machine out of old parts, including a
> real 1.2MB FDD that works.  I have the COCO2EMU with its RETRIEVE.EXE.
> I also have version 1.3 of RETRIEVE.EXE.
>
> Both of them have only been able to read a single disk without errors: a
> factory Tandy disk labeled "One-on-One".  I have no memory of what that is.
>
> On all my other disks, it generates a read error for sector 1 of every
> track.  That is, if I ignore the error, it will read the rest of that
> track's sectors but generate an error on sector 1 of the next track.
> (Or perhaps it is ignoring the entire track and doing nothing at all...)
>
> Any ideas of what I might try here?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>
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