Re: HP4145B - read HP diskette data files onto a PC, utility?

On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Jimmy Blue wrote:

> Have an old clunker 4145B in the lab and don't
> have to fight for it; unlike the newer 4155 & 4156
> it only works with HP-formatted disks than the PC
> won't recognize. Last PC I had that would read them
> was an '80s-vintage HP lab PC (long gone).
>
> Does anyone know of a low-level disk utility that
> could get data off a 4145B diskette into some (could
> I be so lucky as to get readable text?) DOS file
> form so it's usable?

You need something called "LIF2DOS" but still you need a disk which was
formatted in the 4145B (and didn't come preformatted for PC). And then it
doesn't necessarily work with every PC's floppy disk drive.

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