Uploaded December 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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It's a few days before Christmas. In this journal entry, for #DOScember2023, I spent time going through a bunch of old floppy disks that were given to me. I used my Epson SD-800 dual drive and MS-QLink, a Sinclair QL program to read PC formatted disk, to recover their contents. I then used PCem, a PC emulator for Windows, to see if what I recovered was usable.

#MSQLink #PCem #OmniFlop #Sinclair #QL #IBM #PC #Retro


Index:
00:05 Introduction
02:40 MS-QLink disk reader for Sinclair QL
07:00 Several early 80s BASIC disks
13:19 WordStar 3.3 disks from 1979
14:04 Booting PCem, a PC emulator for Windows
15:57 Running with PC DOS 2.0
17:23 A look at BASIC
23:00 Can I run WordStar
25:10 Wrap up - Happy Holidays!