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From: J.A.Jones@lut.ac.uk (Jeff Jones)
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Subject: Reading HP instrument disks on a PC
Message-ID: <1991May21.090824.12630@lut.ac.uk>
Date: 21 May 91 09:08:24 GMT
Reply-To: J.A.Jones@lut.ac.uk (Jeff Jones)
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.
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Hi

We have a number of Hewlett-Packard instruments, many of which have
built in floppy disks for the storage of measurement data. It would be
very useful to be able to read these disks on a PC. The various manuals
say that the disks are readable on HP9000/200 and HP9000/300 under
BASIC 3.0 and 4.0 but they do not give us the disk format. All the
manuals give the stored file format but this is not useful if you can't
read the disks !. We have no access to an HP9000 computer within our
institute and hence would like to use a PC compatible to read these 3.5
inch disks. Does any body know of any utilities, PD or commercial, that
will allow this ? alternativly if someone knows the disk format, or a
reference to it, we could have a go at writing such a routine
ourselves.
Thanks for your assistance in advance.
			Jeff

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