File talk:DAS9200 LV500 Software.zip

I have been told these DAS9200 disks are in fact NOT CP/M format. I was given bad information about the disks and since they seemingly read as CP/M format, I assumed CP/M was the correct disk format. It is not. These disks should not be used. I'm not sure how to delete the files / page.

I'm currently working on getting proper magnetic flux archives of this collection, however it's taken me a long time and money to figure out what I know now. There is a logic analyzer group (https://groups.io/g/logicanalyzers), I am apart of where we are discussing the archival steps of such a weird media format. We can all thank the owner Jonathan for the info about them not being CP/M format.

If anyone here knows what format these disks are, we would be forever grateful. I went scorched earth trying every possible format I could yesterday trying to get them archived properly, it seems like raw magnetic flux archives are really the only way to archive these until we can determine the proper disk format. Not sure exactly how to do this, but I am working on it!

I extracted and checked the files:

/TekTronix/Software/DAS9200_LV500_Software$ file *
1_8__v140__format_make.img:            data
2_8__v140__install.img:                data
3_8__v140__operating_system.img:       tar archive
4_8__v140__operating_system.img:       tar archive
5_8__v140__operating_system.img:       tar archive
6_8__v140__operating_system.img:       tar archive
7_8__v140__operating_system.img:       tar archive
8_8__v140__operating_system.img:       tar archive
92A16_Module.img:                      tar archive
92A60_92A60D__92A90_98A90D_Module.img: tar archive
92HS8_Module.img:                      tar archive
92LAN_Module.img:                      tar archive
92S16_92S32_Module.img:                tar archive
IBM_Applications.img:                  DOS/MBR boot sector, code offset 0x34+2, OEM-ID "MSDOS3.3", sectors/cluster 2, root entries 112, sectors 720 (volumes <=32 MB), Media descriptor 0xfd, sectors/FAT 2, sectors/track 9, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0), FAT (12 bit by descriptor), followed by FAT
Performance_Analysis_Support.img:      tar archive
Remote_Support_PCL.img:                tar archive
v141_Update.img:                       tar archive

I can see that the tar files can be read OK - no errors and files present...Qfissler (talk) 08:11, 20 April 2024 (PDT)

I can see that another set of images is very similar:

TekTronix/Software/DAS171$ file *
DAS171FandM.img:    DOS/MBR boot sector, code offset 0x34+2, OEM-ID "IBM  3.3", root entries 224, sectors 2880 (volumes <=32 MB), sectors/FAT 9, sectors/track 18, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0), FAT (12 bit by descriptor+sectors), followed by FAT
DAS171Install.img:  DOS/MBR boot sector, code offset 0x34+2, OEM-ID "IBM  3.3", root entries 224, sectors 2880 (volumes <=32 MB), sectors/FAT 9, sectors/track 18, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0), FAT (12 bit by descriptor+sectors), followed by FAT
DAS171Options1.img: tar archive
DAS171OS1of4.img:   tar archive
DAS171OS2of4.img:   tar archive
DAS171OS3of4.img:   tar archive
DAS171OS4of4.img:   tar archive

but the sizes of these suit 1.44MB floppies - whereas your LV500 seems to be 400kB Qfissler (talk) 08:28, 20 April 2024 (PDT)