HP-85 Floppy Disk Images

[Gerry Schultz]

Thank you Paul and Dave for your responses. I looked at both websites last night and I'm interested in trying them out. I'm not looking for any specific software, I'm just trying to figure out, when I find software I want, how to translate it back to the 85A. I'm also aware that HP-86/87 software won't run on my HP-85. I also want to try the TESTFDC to see how the Vectra's controller does with this test.

I did try Teledisk versions 2.11 and 2.16 with both of them aborting the transfer to the 3.5" drive.

Here's a little different approach. There are plenty of ISA HP-IB cards available on eBay. If I get one, then I can hook up the HP 92901 and 9121 floppy drives directly to the 486 Vectra PC. Is there a software solution to directly write the file images to the HP drives only using the Vectra? I do have an HP 82973A HPIL to ISA card so I can read and write DOS files to 9114B disk drives.

What would be a nice development is an HP-IB to USB hardware solution similar to J-F's PIL-Box solution. Then you can directly emulate disk drives, printers, etc. for any HP product that uses HP-IB. Support will be a nightmare though.

Thank you for your help,
Gerry