I'm sure there are more tools available, but google is not helping. I have a few of these, but I've never been able to get those floppy controllers to work and it appears the software will only work with the the floppy controllers. The only other tools that I'm aware of are the conversion tools that are specific with the Flagstaff Engineering floppy controllers. Does anyone know of any tools out there that can do this? I'd love to find a tool that can extract the files from the disk images (in order), or give me logical access to the floppy disk. It would not be entirely impossible, but pretty time consuming. Finding the right order of each paragraph would be a pretty big puzzle. Of course, the EBCDIC dump of the disk is out of order.
This at least assured us that the data was there and it looks like it is complete. I was able to image both disks using ImageDisk and also used IMDV to dump the EBCDIC contents to a text file. The family had the audio tapes for a while, but the tapes were eventually lost, leaving only the floppy disks. The story is that his grandfather dictated his journal on tape and his secretary typed it up on their flashy new Displaywriter in 1981.
An acquaintance of mine gave me a few 8" Displaywriter disks that had his Grandfathers' journal on them and asked me to extract the data from them.
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