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3" disks for 8566A/B, 8568A/B on HP 9000 Series 200 Computers - Any interest in images?

Ulf Kylenfall Member Profile All Messages By This Member #150817 ? Hello Forum, ? I think I posted this before but no harm in bumping... Together with an HP8568B, I got a number of 3?-inch disks: ? 85863-10027 Rev C : 85863A Opt 630 Basic Software Library 08568-10004 Rev A: HP 8568B Spectrum Analyzer Operation Verification 08568-10004 Rev A: BASIC Operation Verification for 8568B 85863-10027 Rev B: 85863A Basic Software Library for 8566A and 8568A Opt 630. ? All disks (C) 1984 and two of them marked "For HP 9000 Series 200 Computers with Basic 2.0 or 3.0 O/S ? Any interest in images? I do not know if any data remains on them. If so, How to read and make images on a PC running XP or W7? ? Cheers ? Ulf Kylenfall SM6GXV ?
Dave McGuire Member Profile All Messages By This Member #150818 On 3/12/25 12:35, Ulf Kylenfall via groups.io wrote: Hello Forum, I think I posted this before but no harm in bumping... Together with an HP8568B, I got a number of 3?-inch disks: 85863-10027 Rev C : 85863A Opt 630 Basic Software Library 08568-10004 Rev A: HP 8568B Spectrum Analyzer Operation Verification 08568-10004 Rev A: BASIC Operation Verification for 8568B 85863-10027 Rev B: 85863A Basic Software Library for 8566A and 8568A Opt 630. All disks (C) 1984 and two of them marked "For HP 9000 Series 200 Computers with Basic 2.0 or 3.0 O/S Any interest in images? I do not know if any data remains on them. If so, How to read and make images on a PC running XP or W7? I'd love to have images of those disks. No clue of how to do it with Windows. I use a GreaseWeazle and/or a PC running DOS (DOS, not "a DOS window", to allow direct disk controller register access) with imaging tools. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
Francesco Messineo All Messages By This Member #150819 On Wed, Mar 12, 2025 at 5:35?PM Ulf Kylenfall via groups.io <ulf_r_k@...> wrote: Hello Forum, I think I posted this before but no harm in bumping... Together with an HP8568B, I got a number of 3?-inch disks: 85863-10027 Rev C : 85863A Opt 630 Basic Software Library 08568-10004 Rev A: HP 8568B Spectrum Analyzer Operation Verification 08568-10004 Rev A: BASIC Operation Verification for 8568B 85863-10027 Rev B: 85863A Basic Software Library for 8566A and 8568A Opt 630. All disks (C) 1984 and two of them marked "For HP 9000 Series 200 Computers with Basic 2.0 or 3.0 O/S Any interest in images? I do not know if any data remains on them. If so, How to read and make images on a PC running XP or W7? I'd recommend a greaseweazle board. It's an USB tool that can directly control a PC floppy disk drive and get a flux-level image of (almost) any disk. HTH Frank IZ8DWF
Razvan Popescu All Messages By This Member #150822 Hello, You can use the LIF Utils. Latest release 2.0 was in Dec 2024 and it was tested on Win10 and Win11. Please read the changes for the 2.0 release. 73, Razvan toggle quoted message Show quoted text On 12/03/2025 17:35, Ulf Kylenfall via groups.io wrote: Hello Forum, I think I posted this before but no harm in bumping... Together with an HP8568B, I got a number of 3?-inch disks: 85863-10027 Rev C : 85863A Opt 630 Basic Software Library 08568-10004 Rev A: HP 8568B Spectrum Analyzer Operation Verification 08568-10004 Rev A: BASIC Operation Verification for 8568B 85863-10027 Rev B: 85863A Basic Software Library for 8566A and 8568A Opt 630. All disks (C) 1984 and two of them marked "For HP 9000 Series 200 Computers with Basic 2.0 or 3.0 O/S Any interest in images? I do not know if any data remains on them. If so, How to read and make images on a PC running XP or W7? Cheers Ulf Kylenfall SM6GXV
Ulf Kylenfall Member Profile All Messages By This Member #150857 ? Tried the Github version v2.0.0 as suggested. It could not read any of the disks Tried Keysights LIFUtils. It could not even format a 3" floppy to LIF using XP or W10. (Both O/S could read and format a floppy in Microsoft formats so the h/w is OK.) ? After at couple of hours I gave up. ? I think I can still have an old original HP 3 1/2 " floppy disk unit somewhere with a GPIB interface. I also have a HP Z400 with a NI GPIB card used for KE5FX VNA utilities. ? Anyone that knows if there is software that can be used for reading out the contents using GPIB? ? Now it is man against the machines... ? Ulf SM6GXV ? ?
Ed Marciniak All Messages By This Member #150858 开云体育 Your PC must support 256 and 512 byte sectors and the number of sectors per track used by LIF formats to successfully read/write disks. “Super IO” chips that implement PS2 keyboard/mouse, IDE, a parallel and one or two serial ports plus a floppy interfaces should have no problem(usually 80486 and earlier Pentium). Somewhat newer systems that had the parallel port and floppy, serial/parallel/keyboard via the LPC interface also usually have no trouble(late 486 or earlier Pentium to later pentium maybe P2/P3 typically). Anything Pentium 4, core, core2 and newer you’re probably going to be out of luck. There might be some exceptions, like certain servers that had an LPC interface for a parallel port (for license dongles) that also happen to retain a floppy interface. In principle, a USB device could support non DOS formats but most likely do not. There are some specialized hardware out there .. flux something or another intended to read raw media that could do the job via USB. Something like an old D630, or more generally D600 to D630 and D800 to D830 that can have a floppy, CD-R, DVD or battery in a hot swap bay that’ll do it as well.
Razvan Popescu All Messages By This Member #150860 I am using an old Toshiba Portege 7200 laptop which has the slim floppy drive in the docking station and it runs WinXP. This laptop has a P3 CPU/128MB RAM/64GB PATA IDE SSD. Never had issues with it reading/writing floppy disks. I especially kept it for work with floppy disks and parallel port communication. toggle quoted message Show quoted text On 16/03/2025 20:10, Ed Marciniak via groups.io wrote: Your PC must support 256 and 512 byte sectors and the number of sectors per track used by LIF formats to successfully read/write disks. “Super IO” chips that implement PS2 keyboard/mouse, IDE, a parallel and one or two serial ports plus a floppy interfaces should have no problem(usually 80486 and earlier Pentium). Somewhat newer systems that had the parallel port and floppy, serial/parallel/keyboard via the LPC interface also usually have no trouble(late 486 or earlier Pentium to later pentium maybe P2/P3 typically). Anything Pentium 4, core, core2 and newer you’re probably going to be out of luck. There might be some exceptions, like certain servers that had an LPC interface for a parallel port (for license dongles) that also happen to retain a floppy interface. In principle, a USB device could support non DOS formats but most likely do not. There are some specialized hardware out there .. flux something or another intended to read raw media that could do the job via USB. Something like an old D630, or more generally D600 to D630 and D800 to D830 that can have a floppy, CD-R, DVD or battery in a hot swap bay that’ll do it as well.
Ulf Kylenfall Member Profile All Messages By This Member #150880 ? I used an old 9122 Disk drive. Was able to read the disks and uploaded the zipped contents a few moments ago into the group files area: ? HP-200 Computer files used by 8566 and 8568 Spectrum analyzers ca 1984. Folder names = Disk numbers. Read from a HP9122 disk drive, copied using HPDIR project with TotalCommander. Files in original "PROG" or "ASCII" format. I looked for ways to convert them into Windows .TXT format but ran out of energy... ? It would be interesting if someone managed to check the integrity of the files and of course - if they are usable. ? Cheers ? Ulf SM6GXV
George/Gyorgy Albert All Messages By This Member #150886 开云体育 Hello Ulf, The HP "ASCII" files can be converted to a Windows txt form with HPDIR. I wrote some time ago a small Windows utility that is doing this, also in batch mode (multiple files at once). I attached the 3 ASCII files from your first disk 08568-10004 (since they are small). In case it is interesting, the small program is available (I just don't want to fill the storage space of the group). To save the binary HP PROG files, you have to load them in a HP RM Basic, and save them as ASCII (which can be converted to Windows txt format as above). This can be also done using Olivier Smet's? HP98x6 emulator and running a HP RM Basic on it on a Windows machine. The attached pdf file is describing the step by step procedure. I will check during the week at least one-two of your PROG files for their integrity. BR, George/Gyorgy On 3/17/2025 2:14 PM, Ulf Kylenfall via groups.io wrote: ? I used an old 9122 Disk drive. Was able to read the disks and uploaded the zipped contents a few moments ago into the group files area: ? HP-200 Computer files used by 8566 and 8568 Spectrum analyzers ca 1984. Folder names = Disk numbers. Read from a HP9122 disk drive, copied using HPDIR project with TotalCommander. Files in original "PROG" or "ASCII" format. I looked for ways to convert them into Windows .TXT format but ran out of energy... ? It would be interesting if someone managed to check the integrity of the files and of course - if they are usable. ? Cheers ? Ulf SM6GXV -- Gy?rgy Albert Mob +40-722-304534 COPYRIGHT.txt COPYRIGHT.txt TEXT_68.txt TEXT_68.txt TEXT_6836.txt TEXT_6836.txt HP Emulator guide_V1.2.pdf HP Emulator guide_V1.2.pdf
Razvan Popescu All Messages By This Member #150897 Hi Ulf, Thanks for the disks. If you find other similar disks please upload them to the group files section. 73, Razvan toggle quoted message Show quoted text On 17/03/2025 13:14, Ulf Kylenfall via groups.io wrote: I used an old 9122 Disk drive. Was able to read the disks and uploaded the zipped contents a few moments ago into the group files area: HP-200 Computer files used by 8566 and 8568 Spectrum analyzers ca 1984. Folder names = Disk numbers. Read from a HP9122 disk drive, copied using HPDIR project with TotalCommander. Files in original "PROG" or "ASCII" format. I looked for ways to convert them into Windows .TXT format but ran out of energy... It would be interesting if someone managed to check the integrity of the files and of course - if they are usable. Cheers Ulf SM6GXV

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