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Re: 9-bit floppy disk

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From: Jeffery Priddy
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 00:00
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Robert Hubal (hubal@acpub.duke.edu) wrote:

: I have a floppy disk from an old, old Atari computer, with files that I
: wish to retrieve.  Norton utilities, as far as I can tell, has no idea how
: to read from this disk, since it's formatted using 9-bit bytes (!).

a bit too big, eh?
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From: jpriddy@acpub.duke.edu (Jeffery Priddy)
Subject: Re: 9-bit floppy disk
Date: 1995/06/19
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