RE: Pseudo random number routine

I wonder if there's another way to get the data off an 8" diskette
without having to have an old reader? It would be very cool to have
access to those games, and especially the code, again.  

I heard a story once about this happening at least once. Supposedly it
was true because the guy telling me the story was the one who did it,
When he was an IBM CE in Champaign Illinois, he and his customer took a
tape drive on a S/34 and wired in a little circuit board he put together
which then connected to a cassette player.  They spun the tape on the
drive and that output the data from the tape to the cassette player
where it was "recorded".  From there, they did the whole thing in
reverse to a S/38 tape drive.  I may have the details a bit fuzzy on
that as it's been close to 20 years since I first heard this story. I
don't know why they did this, except that I remember something about the
tape itself had somehow lost its header markers and the system couldn't
read it normally.



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Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 12:32 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: RE: Pseudo random number routine

We got rid of it because we were getting tight on space and a former 
manager thought it should go.  What a ridiculously small amount of disk 
space compared to today's systems.

Rob Berendt