Headline: My Obsolete Skill : Fixing A Disk Using SuperZap?

I've added an obsolete skill I have to FixingADiskUsingAHexEditor

I recal using a program called SuperZap? on the TRS-80 to repair 90K and 180K 5.25 floppy disks where the File allocation table or even files were corrupted. This would happen either when the disk wasn't used in a while, not looked after quite right, or the drive itself was moved - or even when the weather changed too much.

The task of fixing the disk involved surfing around a hex dump of each page of the disk, comparing the contents of the File allocatio table to where files appeared to begin and end. As the disks where small enough, it was generally possible to recover most work.

Fun extra's were when using FORTH-80 or other variations of TSRDos, NewDos? etc.

SuperZap? used to start with an ASCII animation of a wizard - anyone have a screen capture?




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