Recovering Really Old Zip Files

On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 16:59:14 +0200, Martin Blume

Thanks for the pointer Martin.

The single side double density 5-1-4 was 360 kB. I have some really old single side single density and some eight inchers too. I'm saving those to sell on eBay in another few years.

Yes, I read the files with a Hex editor and went back and forth between various views.

My question is what file starts with hc! ?

I am wondering if this whole thing is a wild goose chase. Back in the days these disks came from I was still using a Heathkit H89 for most of my work but had an original IBM PC running DOS and with WordPerfect before the original company in Utah changed their name to WordPerfect.

I don't think these were done on the H89 .. if they had been they would have been single side single density because I don't think the H89 had double density drives. When I built it the H89 had s single 5-1-4 drive. Later on I put in two half-height drives and an external 5 MB hard drive.

So, the research continues. I don't see any actual text files when looking at the disk images so I know it is not just some kind of kludge backup that was given a zip suffix.

Cheers,

Dave