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Tiki-100 questions

I tried to transfer the diskettes to pc trying several 360K drives. 90% of the floppies reports sectors 2-10 only so sector 1 is missing. Is it possible that the drive that wrote these has a misaligned index hole detector starting each track too early. Cramming in 10 sectors of 512 byte is maybe a bit marginal and this is the problem. Is this a common problem? The floppy drive is a bit special because it has head load (the pad is lowered) more typical for 8" drives. Maybe I could transfer via another drive... is it only to attach another drive? Monitor v1.30, does it support two drives? Is the cable for the second drive a straight parallel jumpered accordingly? Can it use a standard PC type 360K drive? Would it be possible to use a 3.5" in 720K mode? Exactly what process do you use to transfer the disks to PC? I have successfully been able to image a Tiki-100 disk (the only one I have) using a central point deluxe option board, for then to extract and decode the MFM encoded data using a custom program. However, getting an option board may not be the easiest task. Have you tried 22DISK, or is that the one which reports the track missing? I'm familiar with the proper way floppydrives are connected as opposed to the IBM trick, yes. Very good thank you for confirming that. And I think B: uses DS1 so a pc drive would go in straight. Possibly I need to do something about termination too. I think I want the machine to remain original so anything like that is only temporary. Nice specimen Kontiki-100 model 2C serial number 3520-389.

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