Now that the subject has been updated, I'll clear up any misunderstandings up to this point. I have an H89 that was donated to me, for my collection. I will not be donating it to the museum. The museum already has one. However, I will be bringing this system to the next Workshop to clean, troubleshoot if necessary, and test. Along with what I received are about 150 SSDD hard sectored disks of personal software from when this system was being actively used back in the late 70s/early 80s. These all include CP/M and HDOS, programs, games, data, etc. If I'm reading the disk labels correctly, these will be more than enough to compile a working set of disks for use on the Museum's H89 so we can get yet another system on display running demonstrations. Until I test the disks, which for all I know may have not survived long term storage, I'll know better what I have and what software is available from the collection. Making straight copies of this software will be easier than trying to convert from online disk images to real disks on a hard sectored drive. If the Museum has any blank hard sectored disks on hand, they will be very useful to have available if none of the disks I have are blank. What I learn from using my H89 should help me with triaging the Museum's H89 to get that up and running at least. As for Gotek solutions, I am aware that hard sector emulation is beta. However, I don't look to there being much need for one at the moment. There simply isn't a vast amount of software that's exclusive to the H89 since it's a CP/M machine, except for maybe the ability to boot HDOS. I don't see the need for more than three or four disks on hand for demonstration purposes, just like the Osborne and Zorba. Jeff Salzman On Sun, May 9, 2021 at 3:40 PM Herb Johnson via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Just as a matter of courtesy: consider starting a new thread when the conversation changes greatly from the "subject" line. I am a user, I'm not in charge. But since I'm posting a response, I'll change the subject line.
The subject of the thread "Needed SD card solutions for museum" was about SDcard adapters to replace floppy drives on 8-bit computers. But most of the thread now is entirely about an H89 acquired which may be donated to the VCFed museum; and/or about the utility of a "Gotek" hardware product for it that emulates various vintage floppy drives with file-storage.