The Trials and Tribulations of Reading a MSDOS Text File Disk

Before I begin I would like to thank Bill Miller of SINCLINK for getting me involved with this project in the first place. I would also like to thank Mark Wahl also of SINCLINK for writing the initial program that I used to get started in the right direction. All I really did was debug Mark’s program.

Our story begins some time ago in a land far far away (Ohio). One day I was talking to Bill on the phone. (Much to my wife’s dismay!) I was telling him that I had just gotten an AERCO disk drive system for my T/S 1000! After having had only cassette and stringy floppy this was new and wonderous for my poor little person to behold. In the course of our conversation Bill mentioned that I should try to read an MSDOS disk. He said that his system could read other disks made on other machines. So I thought sure I am game to give it a try. Well Bill sent me a disk to try. I also sent him one to try.