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B:

I recommend searching, say on google, for a maillist/yahoo group/message 
board website that has information on, or users of, this older yamaha 
synth, and asking a) if there are any utilities for a desktop computer 
that allow you to work with the data on a floppy from your synth, or b) 
if there's anyone out there with the same synth you can get to export the 
data to a more useful format. Depending on the synth, one place to start 
might be the Analogue Heaven maillist. 

http://machines.hyperreal.org/Analogue-Heaven/

Steve
Subscape Annex
http://www.subscapeannex.com/


 On Fri, 16 May 2003, B wrote:

> I knew some of y'all would have suggestions! You're such a smart list....
> 
> I am sorry. I not only was not clear, my own impression was incorrect: The 
> Yamaha is indeed an older unit -- <>'80s -- with a broken floppy disk drive 
> and a card slot that goes unused (no card available). The data for the 
> music exists on an aging floppy disk (argh!) that apparently is useless for 
> anything other than playing on a (repaired) Yamaha Synthesizer.
> 
> So, how do I get that information off of the floppy without screwing up the 
> floppy? Can it be just copied to one or several of our computers? (I have a 
> strong sense of deja vu and dimly remember getting "no eof mark" errors 
> when I consider doing this on Win machines....)
> 
> ???
> "B"
> 
> -------Original Message-------
> <...>
> > 
> > sil,
> 
> it sounds as if you are assuming an internal HD.  i believe this is an 
> older unit that probably only had a slot for a proprietary "RAM card" or 
> at best a floppy disk drive.
> 
> it sounds to me as if it's this floppy disk drive that has failed.
> 
> my recommendations work on the assumpation that the song data still 
> exists in persistent memory and that it is playable, but just needs to 
> be extracted.
> 
> --rt
> 
> 
> Sil Greene wrote:
> 
> > RT makes a good point -- can you still access the drive?  If so, his 
> > suggestions might do the trick ... if not, read on...
> > 
> > Best option is to find a data retrieval place that would do a bitwise 
> > retrieval (essentially dd the data off to an image file).  I don't know
> if 
> > anyone offers that service, and the damage to the drive may make the
> data 
> > unrecoverable.  Even if you get an image, drive damage may have
> corrupted 
> > something.
> 
> 
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